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
  • Alibertia (102)
  • Allenanthus (14)
  • Alseis (16)
  • Amaioua (44)
  • Amphidasya (31)
  • Appunia (1)
  • Arcytophyllum (91)
  • Asemnantha (1)
  • Augusta (26)
  • Bathysa (7)
  • Bertiera (116)
  • Borojoa (65)
  • Bouvardia (14)
  • Calycophyllum (69)
  • Chimarrhis (64)
  • Chiococca (183)
  • Chione (119)
  • Chomelia (102)
  • Cinchona (39)
  • Coccocypselum (111)
  • Coffea (51)
  • Condaminea (34)
  • Coprosma (1)
  • Cosmibuena (75)
  • Cosmocalyx (1)
  • Coussarea (316)
  • Coutarea (45)
  • Crusea (20)
  • Cuatrecasasiodendron (1)
  • Declieuxia (33)
  • Deppea (27)
  • Didymaea (32)
  • Diodia (42)
  • Duroia (50)
  • Elaeagia (52)
  • Exostema (57)
  • Faramea (416)
  • Ferdinandusa (20)
  • Galium (102)
  • Genipa (85)
  • Geophila (57)
  • Gonzalagunia (298)
  • Guettarda (302)
  • Hamelia (395)
  • Heterophyllaea (1)
  • Hillia (166)
  • Hippotis (22)
  • Hoffmannia (667)
  • Houstonia (3)
  • Isertia (94)
  • Ixora (65)
  • Joosia (9)
  • Ladenbergia (75)
  • Lasianthus (6)
  • Machaonia (10)
  • Macrocnemum (35)
  • Malanea (7)
  • Manettia (89)
  • Mitracarpus (54)
  • Morinda (45)
  • Mussaenda (2)
  • Neolamarckia (8)
  • Nertera (77)
  • Notopleura (609)
  • Oldenlandia (49)
  • Osa (5)
  • Pagamea (1)
  • Palicourea (836)
  • Pentagonia (121)
  • Pentas (1)
  • Pinckneya (1)
  • Pittoniotis (5)
  • Pogonopus (24)
  • Portlandia (1)
  • Posoqueria (215)
  • Psychotria (3204)
  • Randia (390)
  • Raritebe (75)
  • Richardia (77)
  • Ronabea (48)
  • Rondeletia (393)
  • Rudgea (208)
  • Rustia (46)
  • Sabicea (171)
  • Schradera (17)
  • Serissa (1)
  • Simira (40)
  • Sipanea (6)
  • Sommera (90)
  • Spermacoce (268)
  • Tocoyena (29)
  • Uncaria (10)
  • Vangueria (2)
  • Warszewiczia (87)