Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR)

Specialty: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics; tropical ferns; tropical fungi.
Date Founded: 1887.
Contacts: Armando Estrada, Director,, museohn@racsa.co.cr
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 January 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 191,859 specimen records
  • 112,800 (59%) georeferenced
  • 178,949 (93%) identified to species
  • 281 families
  • 2,364 genera
  • 10,897 species
  • 10,897 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Asterohyptis (14)
  • Ballota (1)
  • Blephilia (1)
  • Clinopodium (10)
  • Cunila (11)
  • Galeopsis (6)
  • Hyptis (484)
  • Lamium (1)
  • Leonotis (2)
  • Leonurus (14)
  • Lepechinia (27)
  • Marsypianthes (32)
  • Mentha (9)
  • Ocimum (32)
  • Plectranthus (2)
  • Pogostemon (3)
  • Prostanthera (1)
  • Prunella (33)
  • Rosmarinus (7)
  • Salvia (367)
  • Satureja (6)
  • Scutellaria (116)
  • Solenostemon (8)
  • Stachys (23)
  • Teucrium (7)