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
  • Acalypha (3268)
  • Acidoton (41)
  • Actinostemon (171)
  • Adelia (155)
  • Adenopeltis (1)
  • Adenopetalum (2)
  • Adenophaedra (22)
  • Adenoropium (2)
  • Aextoxicon (18)
  • Alchornea (347)
  • Alchorneopsis (58)
  • Alcoceria (1)
  • Aleurites (15)
  • Algernonia (2)
  • Amanoa (157)
  • Anabaenella (3)
  • Andrachne (25)
  • Anisophyllum (9)
  • Antidesma (3)
  • Aonikena (2)
  • Aparisthmium (48)
  • Aporosella (8)
  • Argythamnia (131)
  • Astraea (39)
  • Astrocasia (34)
  • Astrococcus (2)
  • Avellanita (1)
  • Bernardia (257)
  • Bia (32)
  • Brasiliocroton (1)
  • Breynia (3)
  • Caperonia (187)
  • Caryodendron (50)
  • Celianella (5)
  • Centrandra (1)
  • Chaetocarpus (96)
  • Chamaesyce (110)
  • Chiropetalum (60)
  • Chonocentrum (1)
  • Cleidion (51)
  • Cnidoscolus (445)
  • Codiaeum (32)
  • Colliguaja (46)
  • Conceveiba (85)
  • Conceveibastrum (3)
  • Croizatia (15)
  • Croton (5442)
  • Cunuria (7)
  • Dactylostemon (5)
  • Dalechampia (671)
  • Dalembertia (18)
  • Dendrothrix (10)
  • Didymocistus (83)
  • Discocarpus (29)
  • Ditaxis (118)
  • Dodecastigma (31)
  • Drypetes (191)
  • Dysopsis (9)
  • Euphorbia (2405)
  • Excoecaria (6)
  • Flueggea (3)
  • Garcia (29)
  • Gavarretia (1)
  • Glycydendron (37)
  • Gonatogyne (2)
  • Gymnanthes (60)
  • Gymnostillingia (2)
  • Hevea (744)
  • Hieronyma (574)
  • Hippomane (14)
  • Hura (91)
  • Jablonskia (62)
  • Jatropha (522)
  • Joannesia (19)
  • Julocroton (192)
  • Leptopus (4)
  • Mabea (958)
  • Manihot (942)
  • Manihotoides (1)
  • Maprounea (196)
  • Margaritaria (261)
  • Meineckia (6)
  • Micrandra (282)
  • Micrandropsis (9)
  • Microstachys (56)
  • Mozinna (3)
  • Nealchornea (114)
  • Odonteilema (1)
  • Omphalea (63)
  • Ophellantha (5)
  • Ophthalmoblapton (5)
  • Pachystroma (21)
  • Paradrypetes (7)
  • Pausandra (190)
  • Pedilanthus (46)
  • Pera (296)
  • Peridium (4)
  • Philyra (17)
  • Phyllanthus (1281)
  • Piranhea (33)
  • Platygyna (1)
  • Pleradenophora (11)
  • Plukenetia (213)
  • Podocalyx (22)
  • Pogonophora (52)
  • Poinsettia (3)
  • Poraresia (1)
  • Pseudosenefeldera (48)
  • Rhodothyrsus (25)
  • Richeria (138)
  • Ricinella (1)
  • Ricinus (83)
  • Sagotia (98)
  • Sandwithia (14)
  • Sapium (802)
  • Savia (6)
  • Sebastiania (839)
  • Securinega (1)
  • Senefeldera (50)
  • Senefelderopsis (4)
  • Siphonia (2)
  • Stilaginella (4)
  • Stillingia (63)
  • Synadenium (2)
  • Tacarcuna (2)
  • Tetraplandra (3)
  • Tetrorchidium (333)
  • Tithymalus (4)
  • Tragia (234)
  • Vaupesia (3)
  • Veconcibea (1)