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
  • Acrodiclidium (28)
  • Aiouea (99)
  • Ampelodaphne (5)
  • Anaueria (12)
  • Aniba (453)
  • Aydendron (21)
  • Beilschmiedia (111)
  • Bellota (1)
  • Caryodaphnopsis (29)
  • Cassytha (38)
  • Chlorocardium (6)
  • Cinnamomum (182)
  • Clinostemon (1)
  • Cryptocarya (53)
  • Endlicheria (762)
  • Evonymodaphne (1)
  • Gamanthera (1)
  • Goeppertia (14)
  • Gymnobalanus (4)
  • Huberodaphne (1)
  • Hufelandia (3)
  • Kubitzkia (12)
  • Laurus (90)
  • Licaria (266)
  • Litsea (4)
  • Mespilodaphne (10)
  • Mezilaurus (44)
  • Mocinnodaphne (1)
  • Nectandra (1625)
  • Ocotea (2944)
  • Oreodaphne (59)
  • Paraia (4)
  • Persea (562)
  • Petalanthera (1)
  • Phoebe (68)
  • Pleurothyrium (233)
  • Rhodostemonodaphne (129)
  • Sextonia (6)
  • Silvia (8)
  • Systemonodaphne (9)
  • Teleiandra (1)
  • Urbanodendron (7)
  • Williamodendron (2)
  • Yasunia (3)