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
Access Rights: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
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
  • Acerates (2)
  • Amblyopetalum (3)
  • Amblystigma (1)
  • Amphidetes (2)
  • Amphistelma (7)
  • Amphorella (1)
  • Araujia (57)
  • Asclepias (322)
  • Asclepiodora (1)
  • Astephanus (12)
  • Barjonia (11)
  • Blepharodon (203)
  • Calathostelma (2)
  • Calostigma (12)
  • Calotropis (26)
  • Chthamalia (4)
  • Coelostelma (2)
  • Corollonema (1)
  • Cryptostegia (13)
  • Cyathostelma (3)
  • Cynanchum (354)
  • Cystostemma (2)
  • Dactylostelma (1)
  • Dictyanthus (10)
  • Diplolepis (6)
  • Ditassa (328)
  • Exolobus (1)
  • Fimbristemma (1)
  • Fischeria (104)
  • Funastrum (38)
  • Glaziostelma (1)
  • Gomphocarpus (14)
  • Gonioanthela (1)
  • Gonolobus (176)
  • Gyrostelma (4)
  • Hemipogon (31)
  • Holostemma (1)
  • Ibatia (2)
  • Irmischia (1)
  • Jobinia (6)
  • Lachnostoma (2)
  • Lugonia (1)
  • Macroditassa (4)
  • Macroscepis (14)
  • Madarosperma (4)
  • Malinvaudia (2)
  • Marsdenia (155)
  • Matelea (194)
  • Melinia (13)
  • Metalepis (6)
  • Metastelma (162)
  • Minaria (11)
  • Mitostigma (17)
  • Morrenia (78)
  • Nautonia (9)
  • Nephradenia (21)
  • Orthosia (78)
  • Oxypetalum (438)
  • Oxystelma (1)
  • Peckoltia (1)
  • Pentacyphus (1)
  • Peplonia (12)
  • Pergularia (1)
  • Periploca (4)
  • Phaeostemma (2)
  • Pherotrichis (2)
  • Philibertella (2)
  • Philibertia (119)
  • Podandra (2)
  • Polystemma (7)
  • Prosthecidiscus (1)
  • Pseudibatia (8)
  • Pycnobregma (2)
  • Rojasia (4)
  • Rothrockia (3)
  • Roulinia (10)
  • Rouliniella (1)
  • Sarcostemma (137)
  • Schistogyne (27)
  • Schistonema (2)
  • Schubertia (40)
  • Scyphostelma (1)
  • Seutera (1)
  • Stapelia (2)
  • Steleostemma (2)
  • Stelmatocodon (1)
  • Stenomeria (14)
  • Stephanotella (1)
  • Tassadia (128)
  • Telminostelma (1)
  • Tetraphysa (2)
  • Trichosacme (1)
  • Trichostelma (1)
  • Turrigera (1)
  • Tweedia (21)
  • Verlotia (1)
  • Vincetoxicum (20)
  • Widgrenia (4)