Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR)

Specialty: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics; tropical ferns; tropical fungi.
Date Founded: 1887.
Contacts: Armando Estrada, Director,, museohn@racsa.co.cr
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 January 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 191,859 specimen records
  • 112,800 (59%) georeferenced
  • 178,949 (93%) identified to species
  • 281 families
  • 2,364 genera
  • 10,897 species
  • 10,897 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Abatia (19)
  • Banara (48)
  • Carpotroche (94)
  • Casearia (609)
  • Chiangiodendron (7)
  • Flacourtia (8)
  • Hasseltia (101)
  • Hasseltiopsis (28)
  • Homalium (29)
  • Lacistema (128)
  • Laetia (45)
  • Lindackeria (17)
  • Lozania (117)
  • Lunania (74)
  • Macrohasseltia (33)
  • Mayna (38)
  • Olmediella (4)
  • Pleuranthodendron (50)
  • Prockia (49)
  • Ryania (57)
  • Samyda (2)
  • Tetrathylacium (62)
  • Xylosma (213)
  • Zuelania (9)