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
  • Aiouea (57)
  • Aniba (25)
  • Beilschmiedia (175)
  • Caryodaphnopsis (19)
  • Cassytha (6)
  • Cinnamomum (184)
  • Endlicheria (10)
  • Gamanthera (4)
  • Licaria (163)
  • Litsea (11)
  • Nectandra (644)
  • Ocotea (1394)
  • Persea (106)
  • Pleurothyrium (36)
  • Povedadaphne (8)
  • Rhodostemonodaphne (2)
  • Williamodendron (7)