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
  • Aa (36)
  • Acianthera (70)
  • Acineta (4)
  • Acostaea (1)
  • Acronia (1)
  • Acrorchis (1)
  • Ada (6)
  • Aganisia (11)
  • Alamania (1)
  • Altensteinia (32)
  • Amblostoma (1)
  • Amparoa (1)
  • Anathallis (42)
  • Anguloa (3)
  • Arpophyllum (2)
  • Artorima (1)
  • Aspasia (11)
  • Aspidogyne (8)
  • Barbosella (9)
  • Barkeria (10)
  • Baskervilla (8)
  • Batemannia (5)
  • Beloglottis (10)
  • Bifrenaria (15)
  • Bipinnula (3)
  • Bletia (59)
  • Brachionidium (4)
  • Brachystele (11)
  • Braemia (5)
  • Brassavola (17)
  • Brassia (42)
  • Buchtienia (2)
  • Buesiella (1)
  • Bulbophyllum (35)
  • Calypso (1)
  • Camaridium (6)
  • Campylocentrum (36)
  • Capanemia (9)
  • Catasetum (41)
  • Cattleya (48)
  • Caucaea (5)
  • Caularthron (2)
  • Centropetalum (3)
  • Chaubardia (6)
  • Chloraea (61)
  • Chondrorhyncha (4)
  • Chysis (1)
  • Cirrhaea (1)
  • Cischweinfia (3)
  • Cleistes (32)
  • Clowesia (3)
  • Coccineorchis (6)
  • Cochleanthes (1)
  • Cochlioda (3)
  • Codonorchis (5)
  • Coelia (3)
  • Cohniella (6)
  • Comparettia (24)
  • Corallorhiza (5)
  • Coryanthes (5)
  • Corymborkis (7)
  • Cotylolabium (2)
  • Cranichis (101)
  • Crocodeilanthe (4)
  • Crossoglossa (2)
  • Cryptarrhena (5)
  • Cryptocentrum (9)
  • Cryptophoranthus (1)
  • Cuitlauzina (6)
  • Cyanaeorchis (4)
  • Cyclopogon (38)
  • Cycnoches (9)
  • Cypripedium (4)
  • Cyrtidiorchis (3)
  • Cyrtochiloides (6)
  • Cyrtochilum (80)
  • Cyrtopodium (64)
  • Deiregyne (2)
  • Dichaea (64)
  • Dichromanthus (3)
  • Dimerandra (8)
  • Dinema (2)
  • Domingoa (2)
  • Dracontia (1)
  • Dracula (3)
  • Dryadella (5)
  • Duckeella (3)
  • Echinosepala (3)
  • Elleanthus (301)
  • Encyclia (70)
  • Epidendrum (1283)
  • Epilyna (1)
  • Epipactis (1)
  • Epistephium (57)
  • Eriopsis (14)
  • Erycina (45)
  • Erythrodes (8)
  • Euchile (1)
  • Eulophia (21)
  • Eurystyles (4)
  • Evelyna (2)
  • Exalaria (1)
  • Fernandezia (59)
  • Frondaria (1)
  • Funkiella (1)
  • Galeandra (24)
  • Galeoglossum (2)
  • Galeottia (10)
  • Galeottiella (1)
  • Gastropodium (1)
  • Gavilea (6)
  • Gomesa (67)
  • Gomphichis (42)
  • Gongora (20)
  • Goniochilus (1)
  • Goodyera (2)
  • Govenia (33)
  • Gracielanthus (2)
  • Grandiphyllum (5)
  • Grobya (2)
  • Guarianthe (3)
  • Habenaria (348)
  • Hapalorchis (4)
  • Helcia (1)
  • Hexadesmia (1)
  • Hexalectris (2)
  • Hintonella (2)
  • Hofmeisterella (1)
  • Homalopetalum (2)
  • Houlletia (6)
  • Humboldtia (3)
  • Huntleya (7)
  • Ionopsis (19)
  • Isabelia (1)
  • Isochilus (30)
  • Jacquiniella (15)
  • Kefersteinia (4)
  • Kionophyton (2)
  • Koellensteinia (26)
  • Kraenzlinella (3)
  • Kreodanthus (4)
  • Lacaena (1)
  • Laelia (25)
  • Lankesterella (2)
  • Leochilus (8)
  • Lepanthes (62)
  • Lepanthopsis (5)
  • Leptotes (1)
  • Ligeophila (15)
  • Liparis (49)
  • Lockhartia (24)
  • Lothiania (2)
  • Lycaste (24)
  • Lycomormium (2)
  • Macradenia (4)
  • Macroclinium (4)
  • Malaxis (73)
  • Masdevallia (130)
  • Maxillaria (526)
  • Maxillariella (2)
  • Meiracyllium (2)
  • Mesadenella (9)
  • Mesadenus (1)
  • Mesospinidium (1)
  • Microchilus (37)
  • Microstylis (13)
  • Miltonia (10)
  • Miltoniopsis (1)
  • Mormodes (9)
  • Mormolyca (6)
  • Myoxanthus (29)
  • Myrmecophila (3)
  • Myrosmodes (10)
  • Nasonia (3)
  • Nemaconia (1)
  • Neodryas (3)
  • Neokoehleria (3)
  • Nidema (7)
  • Notylia (26)
  • Octomeria (72)
  • Odontoglossum (46)
  • Oeceoclades (8)
  • Oerstedella (8)
  • Oestlundia (3)
  • Oliveriana (2)
  • Oncidium (329)
  • Ophrys (3)
  • Orleanesia (1)
  • Ornithidium (22)
  • Ornithocephalus (18)
  • Otoglossum (11)
  • Otostylis (2)
  • Pabstiella (4)
  • Pachyphyllum (27)
  • Palmorchis (20)
  • Paphinia (1)
  • Paradisanthus (2)
  • Pelexia (36)
  • Peristeria (3)
  • Pescatoria (3)
  • Phragmipedium (50)
  • Phymatidium (6)
  • Physosiphon (4)
  • Physurus (2)
  • Pityphyllum (3)
  • Platanthera (5)
  • Platystele (9)
  • Platythelys (9)
  • Plectrophora (2)
  • Pleurothallis (556)
  • Pogonia (7)
  • Polycycnis (8)
  • Polystachya (51)
  • Ponera (6)
  • Ponthieva (65)
  • Porphyrostachys (21)
  • Porroglossum (1)
  • Prescottia (33)
  • Promenaea (2)
  • Prosthechea (185)
  • Pseudocentrum (1)
  • Pseudolaelia (4)
  • Psilochilus (10)
  • Psychilis (8)
  • Psychopsis (3)
  • Psygmorchis (1)
  • Pterichis (18)
  • Pteroglossa (2)
  • Quekettia (4)
  • Reichenbachanthus (1)
  • Restrepia (19)
  • Restrepiella (1)
  • Rhyncholaelia (4)
  • Rhynchostele (14)
  • Rodriguezia (27)
  • Rodrigueziopsis (2)
  • Rossioglossum (7)
  • Rudolfiella (6)
  • Sacoila (11)
  • Sarcanthus (1)
  • Sarcoglottis (16)
  • Sauroglossum (12)
  • Scaphosepalum (10)
  • Scaphyglottis (122)
  • Scelochilus (1)
  • Schiedeella (10)
  • Schlimmia (2)
  • Schomburgkia (4)
  • Selenipedium (4)
  • Sertifera (8)
  • Sievekingia (2)
  • Sigmatostalix (7)
  • Sobralia (195)
  • Solenidiopsis (1)
  • Solenidium (2)
  • Specklinia (25)
  • Spiranthes (34)
  • Stanhopea (22)
  • Stelis (495)
  • Stellilabium (1)
  • Stenia (1)
  • Stenoptera (19)
  • Stenorrhynchos (42)
  • Stenotyla (2)
  • Stephanothelys (2)
  • Stigmatosema (1)
  • Sudamerlycaste (18)
  • Systeloglossum (1)
  • Telipogon (39)
  • Tolumnia (1)
  • Trichocentrum (31)
  • Trichoceros (20)
  • Trichopilia (15)
  • Trichosalpinx (34)
  • Trigonidium (16)
  • Triphora (2)
  • Trizeuxis (16)
  • Tropidia (1)
  • Uleiorchis (2)
  • Vanilla (61)
  • Vargasiella (1)
  • Veyretia (5)
  • Vitekorchis (10)
  • Warczewiczella (4)
  • Warrea (4)
  • Warreella (1)
  • Warreopsis (1)
  • Wullschlaegelia (12)
  • Xerorchis (4)
  • Xylobium (43)
  • Zelenkoa (5)
  • Zhukowskia (1)
  • Zygopetalum (15)
  • Zygosepalum (10)
  • Zygostates (5)