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
  • Aegiphila (337)
  • Avicennia (93)
  • Bouchea (7)
  • Callicarpa (87)
  • Citharexylum (136)
  • Clerodendrum (47)
  • Cornutia (81)
  • Duranta (30)
  • Gmelina (5)
  • Holmskioldia (7)
  • Lantana (257)
  • Lippia (178)
  • Petrea (45)
  • Phyla (45)
  • Priva (54)
  • Rehdera (30)
  • Stachytarpheta (108)
  • Tectona (11)
  • Verbena (71)
  • Vitex (60)