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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.
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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.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 September 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Aletes (1)
  • Ammi (4)
  • Angelica (8)
  • Anthriscus (1)
  • Apium (36)
  • Arracacia (80)
  • Asteriscium (31)
  • Azorella (53)
  • Berula (4)
  • Bowlesia (64)
  • Centella (2)
  • Chaerophyllum (5)
  • Cicuta (1)
  • Coaxana (2)
  • Conium (10)
  • Coriandrum (6)
  • Coulterophytum (9)
  • Cyclospermum (47)
  • Daucus (24)
  • Deanea (5)
  • Diposis (1)
  • Domeykoa (30)
  • Donnellsmithia (8)
  • Enantiophylla (3)
  • Eremocharis (59)
  • Eryngium (216)
  • Eulophus (2)
  • Foeniculum (4)
  • Gymnophyton (16)
  • Helosciadium (1)
  • Heracleum (1)
  • Homalocarpus (7)
  • Hydrocotyle (133)
  • Klotzschia (2)
  • Langlassea (1)
  • Lilaeopsis (7)
  • Mathiasella (1)
  • Micropleura (7)
  • Mulinum (7)
  • Museniopsis (6)
  • Musenium (1)
  • Nematosciadium (1)
  • Neogoezia (4)
  • Neonelsonia (3)
  • Niphogeton (10)
  • Oenanthe (1)
  • Oreomyrrhis (4)
  • Osmorhiza (4)
  • Ottoa (2)
  • Pastinaca (1)
  • Petroselinum (3)
  • Pimpinella (2)
  • Pozoa (3)
  • Prionosciadium (31)
  • Pseudocymopterus (1)
  • Rhodosciadium (14)
  • Sanicula (24)
  • Selinum (1)
  • Spananthe (28)
  • Tauschia (16)
  • Urbanosciadium (1)
  • Velaea (1)
  • Zosima (2)
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