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
  • Achuaria (1)
  • Adiscanthus (22)
  • Almeidea (14)
  • Amyris (79)
  • Angostura (23)
  • Apocaulon (2)
  • Balfourodendron (39)
  • Bonplandia (4)
  • Casimiroa (15)
  • Choisya (1)
  • Citrus (53)
  • Conchocarpus (62)
  • Cusparia (23)
  • Decagonocarpus (4)
  • Dictyoloma (96)
  • Diglottis (1)
  • Diomma (3)
  • Ertela (67)
  • Erythrochiton (55)
  • Esenbeckia (219)
  • Euxylophora (8)
  • Fagara (60)
  • Galipea (88)
  • Helietta (58)
  • Hortia (44)
  • Kuala (1)
  • Leptothyrsa (15)
  • Lubaria (1)
  • Metrodorea (85)
  • Monniera (1)
  • Murraya (19)
  • Myllanthus (1)
  • Naudinia (1)
  • Neoraputia (19)
  • Nycticalanthus (4)
  • Peltostigma (1)
  • Picrella (1)
  • Pilocarpus (88)
  • Pitavia (7)
  • Ptelea (3)
  • Raputia (31)
  • Raputiarana (2)
  • Rauia (23)
  • Raulinoa (1)
  • Ravenia (25)
  • Raveniopsis (50)
  • Ruta (30)
  • Rutaneblina (3)
  • Sargentia (3)
  • Sigmatanthus (2)
  • Sohnreyia (2)
  • Spathelia (25)
  • Spiranthera (45)
  • Stauranthus (3)
  • Ticorea (38)
  • Toxosiphon (16)
  • Triphasia (4)
  • Zanthoxylum (776)