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
  • Calluna (1)
  • Cavendishia (812)
  • Chimaphila (19)
  • Comarostaphylis (99)
  • Didonica (2)
  • Disterigma (110)
  • Gaultheria (255)
  • Gonocalyx (46)
  • Macleania (116)
  • Monotropa (28)
  • Pernettya (179)
  • Psammisia (61)
  • Rhododendron (2)
  • Satyria (194)
  • Sphyrospermum (163)
  • Themistoclesia (32)
  • Thibaudia (56)
  • Utleya (4)
  • Vaccinium (297)