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
  • Beatonia (2)
  • Calydorea (3)
  • Cardenanthus (1)
  • Cipura (2)
  • Cypella (12)
  • Eleutherine (2)
  • Ennealophus (16)
  • Eurynotia (1)
  • Ferraria (4)
  • Fosteria (1)
  • Gladiolus (2)
  • Herbertia (2)
  • Hesperoxiphion (11)
  • Hydrotaenia (1)
  • Iris (1)
  • Ixia (3)
  • Lansbergia (1)
  • Libertia (2)
  • Marica (1)
  • Mastigostyla (8)
  • Moraea (14)
  • Nemastylis (7)
  • Orthrosanthus (26)
  • Rigidella (2)
  • Roterbe (1)
  • Sessilanthera (1)
  • Sisyrinchium (115)
  • Solenomelus (1)
  • Sphenostigma (5)
  • Tigridia (27)
  • Trimezia (5)