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
  • Abelmoschus (24)
  • Abutilon (673)
  • Abutilothamnus (1)
  • Acaulimalva (23)
  • Allosidastrum (6)
  • Allowissadula (6)
  • Andeimalva (3)
  • Anoda (140)
  • Anotea (1)
  • Asterochlaena (1)
  • Bakeridesia (6)
  • Bastardia (103)
  • Bastardiastrum (6)
  • Bastardiopsis (19)
  • Batesimalva (2)
  • Billieturnera (1)
  • Blanchetiastrum (1)
  • Briquetia (39)
  • Callianthe (3)
  • Callirhoe (1)
  • Cienfuegosia (97)
  • Codonochlamys (2)
  • Corynabutilon (1)
  • Cristaria (217)
  • Dendrosida (7)
  • Dirhamphis (3)
  • Eremalche (2)
  • Fuertesimalva (51)
  • Fugosia (6)
  • Gaya (154)
  • Gayoides (6)
  • Goethea (1)
  • Gossypium (129)
  • Guenetia (1)
  • Hampea (35)
  • Herissantia (69)
  • Hibiscus (450)
  • Hochreutinera (12)
  • Horsfordia (4)
  • Ingenhouzia (5)
  • Kearnemalvastrum (6)
  • Kosteletzkya (34)
  • Krapovickasia (14)
  • Lavatera (15)
  • Lecanophora (9)
  • Malachra (180)
  • Malacothamnus (3)
  • Malva (56)
  • Malvastrum (237)
  • Malvaviscus (140)
  • Malvella (19)
  • Meximalva (2)
  • Modiola (21)
  • Modiolastrum (41)
  • Monteiroa (15)
  • Neobaclea (2)
  • Neobrittonia (2)
  • Nototriche (159)
  • Palaua (171)
  • Pavonia (1065)
  • Peltaea (149)
  • Peltobractea (1)
  • Periptera (5)
  • Phragmocarpidium (8)
  • Phymosia (4)
  • Pseudabutilon (70)
  • Rhynchosida (3)
  • Robinsonella (18)
  • Romanoa (7)
  • Selera (1)
  • Sida (1498)
  • Sidalcea (2)
  • Sidasodes (20)
  • Sidastrum (80)
  • Sphaeralcea (152)
  • Talipariti (2)
  • Tarasa (153)
  • Tetrasida (18)
  • Thespesia (14)
  • Tropidococcus (1)
  • Urena (95)
  • Urocarpidium (146)
  • Wercklea (14)
  • Wissadula (280)