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
  • Adenocalymma (384)
  • Amphilophium (451)
  • Amphitecna (38)
  • Anemopaegma (260)
  • Argylia (63)
  • Arrabidaea (89)
  • Astianthus (7)
  • Bignonia (518)
  • Callichlamys (69)
  • Campsidium (3)
  • Ceratophytum (1)
  • Chilopsis (2)
  • Clytostoma (8)
  • Codazzia (1)
  • Cremastus (2)
  • Crescentia (62)
  • Cuspidaria (194)
  • Cybistax (24)
  • Cydista (25)
  • Delostoma (109)
  • Digomphia (25)
  • Distictella (2)
  • Distictis (3)
  • Dolichandra (199)
  • Eccremocarpus (27)
  • Enallagma (4)
  • Exarata (3)
  • Fridericia (1013)
  • Gelseminum (1)
  • Gibsoniothamnus (5)
  • Godmania (22)
  • Handroanthus (396)
  • Haplolophium (2)
  • Jacaranda (595)
  • Lundia (173)
  • Macfadyena (9)
  • Manaosella (2)
  • Mansoa (135)
  • Martinella (80)
  • Melloa (8)
  • Memora (24)
  • Mussatia (4)
  • Neojobertia (1)
  • Odontotecoma (1)
  • Pachyptera (27)
  • Parabignonia (1)
  • Paragonia (14)
  • Paratecoma (2)
  • Parmentiera (16)
  • Perianthomega (3)
  • Petastoma (10)
  • Phryganocydia (1)
  • Pithecoctenium (24)
  • Pleonotoma (78)
  • Podranea (4)
  • Pseudopaegma (1)
  • Pteropodium (3)
  • Pyrostegia (119)
  • Rojasiophyton (2)
  • Romeroa (4)
  • Roseodendron (13)
  • Saldanhaea (6)
  • Sanhilaria (2)
  • Schizopsis (2)
  • Schlegelia (107)
  • Setilobus (1)
  • Sparattosperma (39)
  • Spathicalyx (1)
  • Spathodea (17)
  • Stenolobium (4)
  • Stizophyllum (106)
  • Tabebuia (266)
  • Tanaecium (318)
  • Tecoma (371)
  • Tecomaria (1)
  • Tourrettia (42)
  • Tynanthus (117)
  • Xylophragma (42)
  • Zeyheria (79)