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
  • Abbevillea (15)
  • Acca (29)
  • Accara (4)
  • Acrandra (1)
  • Amomyrtella (4)
  • Amomyrtus (22)
  • Aulomyrcia (243)
  • Blepharocalyx (170)
  • Britoa (9)
  • Callistemon (2)
  • Calycampe (6)
  • Calycolpus (90)
  • Calycorectes (56)
  • Calyptranthes (863)
  • Calyptromyrcia (3)
  • Calyptropsidium (1)
  • Campomanesia (347)
  • Catinga (1)
  • Chamguava (3)
  • Eucalyptus (9)
  • Eugenia (3960)
  • Eugeniopsis (19)
  • Fremya (1)
  • Gomidesia (227)
  • Hexachlamys (34)
  • Lacerdaea (1)
  • Leptospermum (1)
  • Luma (84)
  • Marlierea (341)
  • Mitranthes (12)
  • Mitropsidium (1)
  • Myrceugenella (2)
  • Myrceugenia (356)
  • Myrcia (3318)
  • Myrcianthes (442)
  • Myrciaria (347)
  • Myrrhinium (49)
  • Myrtekmania (1)
  • Myrteola (144)
  • Myrtus (145)
  • Nania (2)
  • Neomitranthes (19)
  • Orthostemon (1)
  • Phyllocalyx (20)
  • Pimenta (41)
  • Plinia (112)
  • Pseudanamomis (9)
  • Pseudocaryophyllus (5)
  • Psidiopsis (2)
  • Psidium (770)
  • Rubachia (3)
  • Siphoneugena (68)
  • Stenocalyx (27)
  • Syzygium (76)
  • Tepualia (20)
  • Thryptomene (1)
  • Tristania (1)
  • Tristaniopsis (1)
  • Ugni (81)
  • Xanthostemon (1)