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
  • Aberemoa (33)
  • Anaxagorea (248)
  • Annona (691)
  • Asimina (4)
  • Bocagea (10)
  • Bocageopsis (56)
  • Cananga (7)
  • Cardiopetalum (18)
  • Cremastosperma (140)
  • Cyathocalyx (1)
  • Cymbopetalum (101)
  • Desmopsis (18)
  • Diclinanona (32)
  • Duckeanthus (1)
  • Duguetia (468)
  • Ephedranthus (26)
  • Froesiodendron (4)
  • Fusaea (62)
  • Guatteria (1462)
  • Guatteriopsis (4)
  • Heteropetalum (2)
  • Hornschuchia (8)
  • Klarobelia (38)
  • Malmea (34)
  • Mosannona (45)
  • Onychopetalum (12)
  • Oxandra (209)
  • Porcelia (33)
  • Pseudephedranthus (2)
  • Pseudomalmea (18)
  • Pseudoxandra (98)
  • Raimondia (8)
  • Rollinia (338)
  • Ruizodendron (28)
  • Sapranthus (18)
  • Stenanona (4)
  • Tetrameranthus (23)
  • Tridimeris (4)
  • Trigynaea (53)
  • Unona (2)
  • Unonopsis (371)
  • Uvaria (5)
  • Xylopia (281)