Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR)

Specialty: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics; tropical ferns; tropical fungi.
Date Founded: 1887.
Contacts: Armando Estrada, Director,, museohn@racsa.co.cr
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 January 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 191,859 specimen records
  • 112,800 (59%) georeferenced
  • 178,949 (93%) identified to species
  • 281 families
  • 2,364 genera
  • 10,897 species
  • 10,897 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Adiantopsis (9)
  • Adiantum (1036)
  • Aleuritopteris (9)
  • Anogramma (15)
  • Argyrochosma (9)
  • Astrolepis (4)
  • Bommeria (4)
  • Cheilanthes (130)
  • Cheiloplecton (1)
  • Cryptogramma (1)
  • Doryopteris (17)
  • Eriosorus (174)
  • Hemionitis (59)
  • Jamesonia (134)
  • Llavea (3)
  • Mildella (49)
  • Notholaena (29)
  • Pellaea (16)
  • Pityrogramma (365)
  • Pterozonium (2)
  • Trachypteris (2)