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
  • Acrocomia (6)
  • Aiphanes (37)
  • Alfonsia (1)
  • Allagoptera (1)
  • Ammandra (3)
  • Amylocarpus (1)
  • Astrocaryum (45)
  • Attalea (72)
  • Bactris (211)
  • Brahea (4)
  • Butia (1)
  • Calyptrogyne (2)
  • Catostigma (2)
  • Ceroxylon (10)
  • Chamaedorea (133)
  • Chelyocarpus (4)
  • Coccothrinax (3)
  • Cocos (43)
  • Collinia (10)
  • Copernicia (23)
  • Corypha (1)
  • Cryosophila (2)
  • Dahlgrenia (1)
  • Desmoncus (49)
  • Dictyocaryum (1)
  • Diplothemium (7)
  • Elaeis (2)
  • Euterpe (20)
  • Geonoma (397)
  • Guilielma (2)
  • Hyospathe (37)
  • Inodes (1)
  • Iriartea (17)
  • Iriartella (22)
  • Jessenia (3)
  • Juania (1)
  • Jubaea (1)
  • Klopstockia (2)
  • Leopoldinia (10)
  • Lepidocaryum (12)
  • Manicaria (3)
  • Markleya (2)
  • Martinezia (5)
  • Mauritia (10)
  • Mauritiella (3)
  • Maximiliana (9)
  • Morenia (3)
  • Oenocarpus (22)
  • Opsiandra (1)
  • Orbignya (31)
  • Parascheelea (3)
  • Pholidostachys (7)
  • Phytelephas (17)
  • Polyandrococos (1)
  • Prestoea (17)
  • Raphia (1)
  • Reinhardtia (4)
  • Sabal (1)
  • Scheelea (35)
  • Socratea (9)
  • Stachyophorbe (4)
  • Syagrus (11)
  • Taenianthera (3)
  • Tessmanniophoenix (2)
  • Trithrinax (7)
  • Welfia (1)
  • Wendlandiella (5)
  • Wettinia (20)
  • Yuyba (2)