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
  • Adenocalymna (9)
  • Amphilophium (24)
  • Amphitecna (26)
  • Anemopaegma (8)
  • Argylia (2)
  • Arrabidaea (49)
  • Callichlamys (2)
  • Catalpa (2)
  • Ceratophytum (1)
  • Chilopsis (1)
  • Clytostoma (6)
  • Crescentia (9)
  • Cydista (16)
  • Godmania (6)
  • Jacaranda (1)
  • Lundia (10)
  • Macfadyena (5)
  • Mansoa (5)
  • Martinella (7)
  • Melloa (7)
  • Mussatia (3)
  • Paragonia (8)
  • Parmentiera (3)
  • Phryganocydia (6)
  • Pithecoctenium (9)
  • Pleonotoma (3)
  • Saldanhaea (1)
  • Saritaea (1)
  • Spathodea (5)
  • Stizophyllum (5)
  • Tabebuia (56)
  • Tecoma (8)
  • Tourrettia (4)
  • Tynanthus (2)
  • Xylophragma (5)