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
  • Acnistus (24)
  • Brachistus (10)
  • Browallia (102)
  • Brugmansia (31)
  • Brunfelsia (11)
  • Capsicum (86)
  • Cestrum (558)
  • Cuatresia (42)
  • Cyphomandra (3)
  • Datura (9)
  • Jaltomata (57)
  • Juanulloa (27)
  • Larnax (22)
  • Lycianthes (518)
  • Melananthus (11)
  • Merinthopodium (97)
  • Nicandra (12)
  • Nicotiana (16)
  • Petunia (1)
  • Physalis (149)
  • Schultesianthus (83)
  • Schwenkia (10)
  • Solandra (43)
  • Solanum (2023)
  • Witheringia (430)