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
  • Allophylus (153)
  • Allosanthus (2)
  • Blighia (11)
  • Cardiospermum (56)
  • Cupania (264)
  • Dilodendron (41)
  • Dodonaea (29)
  • Exothea (26)
  • Litchi (3)
  • Matayba (54)
  • Melicoccus (7)
  • Nephelium (9)
  • Paullinia (359)
  • Pseudima (1)
  • Sapindus (29)
  • Serjania (213)
  • Talisia (39)
  • Thinouia (3)
  • Thouinia (13)
  • Thouinidium (36)
  • Urvillea (17)
  • Vouarana (11)