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
  • Abildgaardia (2)
  • Ascolepis (1)
  • Becquerelia (6)
  • Bisboeckelera (1)
  • Bolboschoenus (2)
  • Bulbostylis (31)
  • Calyptrocarya (30)
  • Carex (386)
  • Cephalocarpus (2)
  • Chaetocyperus (1)
  • Chaetospora (1)
  • Chlorocyperus (1)
  • Cladium (4)
  • Cryptangium (13)
  • Cyperus (290)
  • Dichromena (14)
  • Diclidium (3)
  • Diplacrum (4)
  • Diplasia (17)
  • Eleocharis (77)
  • Eleogenus (2)
  • Elynanthus (1)
  • Everardia (9)
  • Exochogyne (2)
  • Fimbristylis (20)
  • Fintelmannia (5)
  • Fuirena (9)
  • Haloschoenus (4)
  • Haplostylis (2)
  • Holoschoenus (1)
  • Hoppia (3)
  • Hymenolytrum (1)
  • Hypaelyptum (1)
  • Hypolytrum (27)
  • Hypoporum (3)
  • Isolepis (12)
  • Koyamaea (1)
  • Kyllinga (24)
  • Lagenocarpus (35)
  • Lipocarpha (5)
  • Machaerina (1)
  • Mapania (1)
  • Mariscus (2)
  • Mitrospora (3)
  • Nemochloa (2)
  • Omoscleria (1)
  • Oncostylis (3)
  • Oreobolus (4)
  • Oxycaryum (5)
  • Platylepis (1)
  • Pleurostachys (18)
  • Psilocarya (5)
  • Pycreus (10)
  • Remirea (1)
  • Rhynchospora (246)
  • Schoenoplectus (9)
  • Schoenus (6)
  • Scirpus (60)
  • Scleria (117)
  • Spermodon (1)
  • Stenophyllus (1)
  • Torulinium (6)
  • Trichelostylis (2)
  • Trichophorum (2)
  • Trilepis (2)
  • Uncinia (17)
  • Vesicarex (1)
  • Websteria (1)