Field Museum of Natural History (F-Botany)

Additional electronic access to F database is available at: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/Query.php. Specialty: Phanerogams worldwide with emphasis on tropical and North America, especially rich in collections from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru; pteridophytes worldwide with emphasis on Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru; bryophytes worldwide; mosses of North America, Central America, Andean South America, and Australasia; hepatics of north temperate, South America, and south temperate; all groups of fungi, especially basidiomycetes with emphasis on New World and lichenized fungi of north temperate and Central America; algae worldwide, especially Cyanobacteria; economic botany.
Collections Manager: Kimberly Hansen, khansen@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 September 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Collection Statistics
  • 484,459 specimen records
  • 37,039 (8%) georeferenced
  • 407,977 (84%) with images (474,064 total images)
  • 429,161 (89%) identified to species
  • 328 families
  • 5,532 genera
  • 74,579 species
  • 78,397 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthura (1)
  • Acanthus (1)
  • Adhatoda (2)
  • Amphiscopia (2)
  • Ancylogyne (1)
  • Anisacanthus (46)
  • Aphelandra (611)
  • Aphelandrella (1)
  • Arrhostoxylum (3)
  • Asystasia (6)
  • Barleria (13)
  • Barleriola (2)
  • Beloperone (54)
  • Berginia (2)
  • Blechum (71)
  • Bravaisia (37)
  • Calophanes (4)
  • Carlowrightia (17)
  • Cephalacanthus (3)
  • Chaetochlamys (5)
  • Chaetothylax (7)
  • Chamaeranthemum (6)
  • Chileranthemum (1)
  • Clistax (2)
  • Copioglossa (1)
  • Cylindrosolenium (14)
  • Dianthera (1)
  • Diapedium (1)
  • Dicliptera (319)
  • Dipteracanthus (4)
  • Drejera (2)
  • Drejerella (1)
  • Duvernoia (2)
  • Dyschoriste (104)
  • Ebermaiera (3)
  • Elytraria (21)
  • Encephalosphaera (12)
  • Eranthemum (2)
  • Fittonia (49)
  • Geissomeria (45)
  • Glockeria (1)
  • Graptophyllum (2)
  • Gymnacanthus (1)
  • Habracanthus (32)
  • Hansteinia (15)
  • Harpochilus (1)
  • Hemigraphis (2)
  • Henrya (15)
  • Herpetacanthus (28)
  • Holographis (11)
  • Hygrophila (105)
  • Hypoestes (3)
  • Isotheca (2)
  • Jacobinia (49)
  • Juruasia (13)
  • Justicia (1569)
  • Kalbreyeriella (23)
  • Lepidagathis (57)
  • Leptostachya (1)
  • Lophostachys (14)
  • Lophothecium (1)
  • Louteridium (13)
  • Lychniothyrsus (1)
  • Macrostegia (2)
  • Megaskepasma (7)
  • Mendoncia (442)
  • Mexacanthus (1)
  • Mirandea (2)
  • Nelsonia (6)
  • Neriacanthus (5)
  • Odontonema (77)
  • Onychacanthus (1)
  • Orophochilus (1)
  • Orthotactus (1)
  • Pachystachys (76)
  • Poikilacanthus (26)
  • Pranceacanthus (3)
  • Pringleophytum (1)
  • Pseuderanthemum (127)
  • Psilanthele (3)
  • Pulchranthus (47)
  • Razisea (15)
  • Rhacodiscus (2)
  • Rhombochlamys (2)
  • Rhytiglossa (8)
  • Ruellia (1211)
  • Sanchezia (259)
  • Sarotheca (2)
  • Schaueria (9)
  • Sericographis (4)
  • Siphonacanthus (1)
  • Siphonoglossa (12)
  • Solenoruellia (1)
  • Spathacanthus (6)
  • Spirostigma (1)
  • Staurogyne (28)
  • Steirosanchezia (1)
  • Stemonacanthus (2)
  • Stenandrium (76)
  • Stenostephanus (82)
  • Stephanophysum (2)
  • Streblacanthus (13)
  • Suessenguthia (17)
  • Tabascina (1)
  • Teliostachya (35)
  • Tessmanniacanthus (6)
  • Tetramerium (86)
  • Thunbergia (83)
  • Thyrsacanthus (6)
  • Trichanthera (43)
  • Trichosanchezia (3)
  • Yeatesia (1)