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
  • Aechmea (208)
  • Ananas (4)
  • Androlepis (4)
  • Araeococcus (41)
  • Bromelia (24)
  • Catopsis (160)
  • Greigia (19)
  • Guzmania (251)
  • Mezobromelia (4)
  • Pitcairnia (192)
  • Puya (23)
  • Racinaea (35)
  • Ronnbergia (14)
  • Tillandsia (605)
  • Vriesea (275)
  • Werauhia (85)