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
Access Rights: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
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
  • Acnistus (139)
  • Athenaea (91)
  • Atropa (3)
  • Aureliana (23)
  • Bassovia (18)
  • Benthamiella (2)
  • Bouchetia (7)
  • Brachistus (8)
  • Browallia (297)
  • Brugmansia (323)
  • Brunfelsia (680)
  • Cacabus (8)
  • Capsicum (433)
  • Cestrum (1792)
  • Chaenesthes (1)
  • Codochonia (1)
  • Cuatresia (63)
  • Cyclostigma (2)
  • Cyphomandra (56)
  • Darcyanthus (1)
  • Datura (105)
  • Deprea (13)
  • Duckeodendron (7)
  • Dunalia (124)
  • Dyssochroma (13)
  • Ectozoma (2)
  • Eriolarynx (1)
  • Exodeconus (75)
  • Fabiana (74)
  • Franciscea (5)
  • Fregirardia (8)
  • Grabowskia (53)
  • Hawkesiophyton (30)
  • Hebecladus (17)
  • Heteranthia (1)
  • Himeranthus (1)
  • Iochroma (486)
  • Jaborosa (50)
  • Jaltomata (450)
  • Juanulloa (111)
  • Larnax (127)
  • Latua (6)
  • Leptofeddea (1)
  • Leptoglossis (35)
  • Lycianthes (788)
  • Lycioplesium (3)
  • Lycium (204)
  • Lycopersicon (119)
  • Margaranthus (1)
  • Markea (135)
  • Metternichia (26)
  • Nicandra (88)
  • Nicotiana (643)
  • Nierembergia (93)
  • Nolana (1311)
  • Parascopolia (1)
  • Petunia (180)
  • Phrodus (7)
  • Physalis (476)
  • Poecilochroma (10)
  • Reyesia (27)
  • Rhopalostigma (1)
  • Salpichroa (258)
  • Salpiglossis (29)
  • Saracha (183)
  • Schizanthus (94)
  • Schultesianthus (40)
  • Schwenckia (106)
  • Schwenkiopsis (1)
  • Sclerophylax (8)
  • Sessea (116)
  • Sicklera (1)
  • Solandra (15)
  • Solanum (9971)
  • Streptosolen (47)
  • Trechonaetes (4)
  • Trianaea (21)
  • Vassobia (67)
  • Vestia (9)
  • Waddingtonia (1)
  • Withania (8)
  • Witheringia (167)