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
  • Achyranthes (8)
  • Alternanthera (63)
  • Amaranthus (21)
  • Blutaparon (11)
  • Celosia (2)
  • Chamissoa (37)
  • Chenopodium (30)
  • Cyathula (27)
  • Gomphrena (17)
  • Hebanthe (9)
  • Iresine (105)
  • Pfaffia (4)
  • Pleuropetalum (35)
  • Tidestromia (2)