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
  • Achimenes (87)
  • Alloplectus (298)
  • Besleria (590)
  • Capanea (101)
  • Chrysothemis (82)
  • Codonanthe (47)
  • Columnea (1007)
  • Cremosperma (9)
  • Diastema (63)
  • Drymonia (650)
  • Episcia (55)
  • Gasteranthus (95)
  • Gloxinia (6)
  • Koellikeria (38)
  • Kohleria (196)
  • Monopyle (88)
  • Moussonia (48)
  • Napeanthus (64)
  • Nautilocalyx (18)
  • Neomortonia (36)
  • Oerstedina (7)
  • Paradrymonia (115)
  • Phinaea (16)
  • Reldia (2)
  • Rhynchoglossum (35)
  • Rufodorsia (39)
  • Sinningia (11)
  • Solenophora (78)