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
  • Campyloneurum (793)
  • Dicranoglossum (88)
  • Goniophlebium (1)
  • Loxogramme (20)
  • Microgramma (405)
  • Microphlebodium (1)
  • Microsorum (3)
  • Neurodium (12)
  • Niphidium (193)
  • Pecluma (245)
  • Phlebodium (167)
  • Pleopeltis (283)
  • Polypodium (1660)
  • Pseudocolysis (5)
  • Pyrrosia (1)
  • Solanopteris (13)