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
  • Abildgaardia (7)
  • Becquerelia (24)
  • Bolboschoenus (1)
  • Bulbostylis (76)
  • Calyptrocarya (68)
  • Carex (399)
  • Cladium (7)
  • Cyperus (1122)
  • Diplacrum (5)
  • Diplasia (21)
  • Eleocharis (384)
  • Fimbristylis (289)
  • Fuirena (36)
  • Hypolytrum (35)
  • Isolepis (33)
  • Kyllinga (144)
  • Lipocarpha (28)
  • Mapania (82)
  • Oreobolus (63)
  • Oxycaryum (26)
  • Pycreus (12)
  • Remirea (5)
  • Rhynchospora (719)
  • Schoenoplectus (12)
  • Schoenus (2)
  • Scirpus (1)
  • Scleria (278)
  • Uncinia (106)