Field Museum of Natural History (F-Botany)

Additional electronic access to F database is available at: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/Query.php. Specialty: Phanerogams worldwide with emphasis on tropical and North America, especially rich in collections from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru; pteridophytes worldwide with emphasis on Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru; bryophytes worldwide; mosses of North America, Central America, Andean South America, and Australasia; hepatics of north temperate, South America, and south temperate; all groups of fungi, especially basidiomycetes with emphasis on New World and lichenized fungi of north temperate and Central America; algae worldwide, especially Cyanobacteria; economic botany.
Collections Manager: Kimberly Hansen, khansen@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 September 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Collection Statistics
  • 484,459 specimen records
  • 37,039 (8%) georeferenced
  • 407,977 (84%) with images (474,064 total images)
  • 429,161 (89%) identified to species
  • 328 families
  • 5,532 genera
  • 74,579 species
  • 78,397 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Achyranthes (49)
  • Alternanthera (330)
  • Amaranthus (510)
  • Banalia (1)
  • Blutaparon (41)
  • Bucholzia (2)
  • Celosia (68)
  • Chamissoa (321)
  • Cyathula (117)
  • Desmochaeta (1)
  • Froelichia (44)
  • Froelichiella (1)
  • Gomphrena (680)
  • Gossypianthus (2)
  • Guilleminea (68)
  • Hebanthe (85)
  • Herbstia (2)
  • Irenella (1)
  • Iresine (588)
  • Lenzia (2)
  • Lithophila (1)
  • Mogiphanes (4)
  • Oplotheca (2)
  • Pedersenia (17)
  • Pfaffia (212)
  • Philoxerus (2)
  • Pleuropetalum (17)
  • Pseudogomphrena (1)
  • Pseudoplantago (1)
  • Quaternella (1)
  • Telanthera (21)
  • Tidestromia (4)
  • Xerosiphon (3)