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
  • Antigonon (17)
  • Bilderdykia (1)
  • Coccoloba (285)
  • Gymnopodium (1)
  • Muehlenbeckia (64)
  • Oxyria (1)
  • Podopterus (3)
  • Polygonum (173)
  • Reynoutria (1)
  • Rumex (110)
  • Ruprechtia (21)
  • Triplaris (54)