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
  • Asclepias (123)
  • Asclepiodora (4)
  • Blepharodon (46)
  • Calotropis (3)
  • Cryptostegia (2)
  • Cynanchum (51)
  • Fischeria (37)
  • Gomphocarpus (4)
  • Gonolobus (84)
  • Macroscepis (21)
  • Marsdenia (31)
  • Matelea (64)
  • Oxypetalum (3)
  • Sarcostemma (31)
  • Stapelia (2)
  • Tassadia (28)
  • Vincetoxicum (1)