Field Museum of Natural History (F-Plants)

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.
Contacts: Christine Niezgoda, cniezgoda@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 June 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
Collection Statistics
  • 36,838 specimen records
  • 30,019 (81%) georeferenced
  • 27,414 (74%) with images (35,848 total images)
  • 34,969 (95%) identified to species
  • 240 families
  • 1,842 genera
  • 8,519 species
  • 8,676 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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