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
  • Abelmoschus (20)
  • Abutilon (20)
  • Alcea (1)
  • Allosidastrum (27)
  • Anoda (22)
  • Bakeridesia (1)
  • Briquetia (7)
  • Gossypium (25)
  • Hampea (139)
  • Herissantia (13)
  • Hibiscus (125)
  • Kearnemalvastrum (3)
  • Kosteletzkya (9)
  • Malachra (73)
  • Malva (11)
  • Malvastrum (13)
  • Malvaviscus (182)
  • Modiola (3)
  • Pavonia (194)
  • Peltaea (16)
  • Pseudabutilon (2)
  • Robinsonella (19)
  • Sida (258)
  • Talipariti (1)
  • Thespesia (5)
  • Urena (40)
  • Wercklea (78)
  • Wissadula (47)