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
  • Acineta (1)
  • Acostaea (37)
  • Acrorchis (12)
  • Ada (6)
  • Amblostoma (1)
  • Anthereon (2)
  • Arethusa (2)
  • Arpophyllum (13)
  • Arundina (4)
  • Aspasia (27)
  • Barbosella (37)
  • Barkeria (8)
  • Baskervilla (7)
  • Beloglottis (7)
  • Bletia (23)
  • Brachionidium (12)
  • Brachystele (2)
  • Brassavola (34)
  • Brassia (23)
  • Bulbophyllum (4)
  • Calanthe (13)
  • Camaridium (5)
  • Campylocentrum (37)
  • Catasetum (9)
  • Cattleya (8)
  • Caularthron (5)
  • Chaubardiella (2)
  • Chelyorchis (4)
  • Chondrorhyncha (11)
  • Chondroscaphe (2)
  • Chysis (3)
  • Cischweinfia (1)
  • Cleistes (3)
  • Coccineorchis (36)
  • Cochleanthes (10)
  • Coeliopsis (1)
  • Comparettia (13)
  • Coryanthes (3)
  • Corymborkis (9)
  • Cranichis (33)
  • Crossoglossa (25)
  • Cryptarrhena (2)
  • Cryptocentrum (38)
  • Cyclopogon (6)
  • Cycnoches (9)
  • Cypripedium (3)
  • Cyrtochiloides (3)
  • Cyrtopodium (3)
  • Dichaea (114)
  • Dimerandra (4)
  • Diodonopsis (12)
  • Dracula (11)
  • Dresslerella (3)
  • Dressleria (1)
  • Dryadella (5)
  • Echinella (6)
  • Elleanthus (316)
  • Encyclia (25)
  • Epidendrum (1140)
  • Epilyna (1)
  • Epipactis (1)
  • Erycina (7)
  • Erythrodes (58)
  • Eulophia (1)
  • Eurystyles (3)
  • Galeandra (3)
  • Galeottia (2)
  • Gomphichis (3)
  • Gongora (17)
  • Goniochilus (7)
  • Goodyera (16)
  • Govenia (18)
  • Gymnadenia (1)
  • Habenaria (105)
  • Homalopetalum (4)
  • Huntleya (10)
  • Hybochilus (6)
  • Ionopsis (8)
  • Isochilus (12)
  • Jacquiniella (36)
  • Kefersteinia (4)
  • Kreodanthus (1)
  • Laelia (11)
  • Leochilus (14)
  • Lepanthes (249)
  • Liparis (15)
  • Lockhartia (89)
  • Lycaste (23)
  • Macroclinium (11)
  • Malaxis (69)
  • Masdevallia (167)
  • Maxillaria (891)
  • Mesospinidium (11)
  • Microthelys (1)
  • Miltoniopsis (4)
  • Monophyllorchis (2)
  • Mormodes (9)
  • Myoxanthus (16)
  • Myrmecophila (3)
  • Nidema (28)
  • Notylia (10)
  • Octomeria (4)
  • Oerstedella (250)
  • Oncidium (156)
  • Orchis (1)
  • Ornithocephalus (25)
  • Osmoglossum (6)
  • Otoglossum (15)
  • Pachyphyllum (9)
  • Palmorchis (17)
  • Pelexia (5)
  • Peristeria (1)
  • Pescatorea (6)
  • Phragmipedium (10)
  • Platystele (76)
  • Pleurothallis (716)
  • Pleurothallopsis (4)
  • Polystachya (39)
  • Ponthieva (29)
  • Prescottia (4)
  • Prosthechea (195)
  • Pseudocentrum (1)
  • Psilochilus (13)
  • Psychopsis (2)
  • Psygmorchis (20)
  • Pterichis (15)
  • Reichenbachanthus (1)
  • Restrepia (21)
  • Restrepiella (1)
  • Rhynchostele (1)
  • Rodriguezia (4)
  • Rossioglossum (3)
  • Sacoila (9)
  • Sarcoglottis (9)
  • Scaphosepalum (23)
  • Scaphyglottis (306)
  • Scelochilus (1)
  • Schomburgkia (3)
  • Sigmatostalix (44)
  • Sobralia (195)
  • Solenocentrum (4)
  • Spiranthes (1)
  • Stanhopea (43)
  • Stelis (613)
  • Stellilabium (6)
  • Stenorrhynchos (14)
  • Systeloglossum (10)
  • Telipogon (48)
  • Ticoglossum (26)
  • Trevoria (2)
  • Trichocentrum (20)
  • Trichopilia (20)
  • Trichosalpinx (58)
  • Trigonidium (35)
  • Triphora (3)
  • Trisetella (11)
  • Trizeuxis (10)
  • Vanilla (19)
  • Warrea (8)
  • Wullschlaegelia (4)
  • Xylobium (34)