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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
  • Allocarya (3)
  • Amsinckia (46)
  • Anchusa (2)
  • Antiphytum (15)
  • Auxemma (4)
  • Borago (3)
  • Bourreria (45)
  • Buglossoides (11)
  • Cerdana (2)
  • Cochranea (3)
  • Coldenia (16)
  • Cordia (2650)
  • Cryptantha (209)
  • Cynoglossum (70)
  • Echium (21)
  • Ehretia (36)
  • Eritrichium (11)
  • Greeneocharis (1)
  • Hackelia (43)
  • Harpagonella (1)
  • Heliophytum (11)
  • Heliotropium (1534)
  • Ixorhea (2)
  • Johnstonella (2)
  • Lappula (6)
  • Lasiarrhenum (4)
  • Lepidocordia (2)
  • Lithospermum (79)
  • Lycopsis (1)
  • Macromeria (16)
  • Meratia (2)
  • Mertensia (3)
  • Messerschmidia (4)
  • Mimophytum (1)
  • Moritzia (22)
  • Myosotis (11)
  • Myriopus (6)
  • Omphalodes (4)
  • Onosmodium (3)
  • Patagonula (42)
  • Pectocarya (45)
  • Plagiobothrys (58)
  • Rochefortia (9)
  • Saccellium (29)
  • Schleidenia (2)
  • Selkirkia (1)
  • Thaumatocaryon (10)
  • Tiquilia (191)
  • Tournefortia (1048)
  • Varronia (50)
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