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
IPT / DwC-A Source:
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.)