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
  • Callistemon (6)
  • Calycolpus (9)
  • Calyptranthes (113)
  • Eucalyptus (22)
  • Eugenia (703)
  • Marlierea (14)
  • Melaleuca (14)
  • Myrcia (273)
  • Myrcianthes (129)
  • Myrciaria (66)
  • Myrtus (5)
  • Pimenta (49)
  • Plinia (12)
  • Psidium (197)
  • Syzygium (24)
  • Ugni (101)