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
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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.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Abromeitiella (1)
  • Acanthostachys (4)
  • Aechmea (450)
  • Alcantarea (1)
  • Ananas (83)
  • Anoplophytum (1)
  • Araeococcus (17)
  • Aregelia (1)
  • Ayensua (1)
  • Billbergia (86)
  • Bonapartea (3)
  • Brewcaria (2)
  • Brocchinia (59)
  • Bromelia (89)
  • Canistrum (14)
  • Caraguata (3)
  • Catopsis (24)
  • Cipuropsis (1)
  • Connellia (11)
  • Cottendorfia (5)
  • Cryptanthus (8)
  • Deuterocohnia (24)
  • Dyckia (136)
  • Encholirium (13)
  • Fascicularia (3)
  • Fernseea (2)
  • Fosterella (30)
  • Garrelia (1)
  • Greigia (30)
  • Guzmania (323)
  • Hechtia (17)
  • Hohenbergia (19)
  • Lamprococcus (3)
  • Lindmania (52)
  • Mezobromelia (28)
  • Mosenia (1)
  • Navia (62)
  • Neoregelia (33)
  • Nidularium (46)
  • Ochagavia (4)
  • Orthophytum (5)
  • Pepinia (9)
  • Pitcairnia (502)
  • Portea (7)
  • Pourretia (3)
  • Puya (375)
  • Quesnelia (16)
  • Racinaea (56)
  • Rhodostachys (1)
  • Ronnbergia (15)
  • Sodiroa (1)
  • Streptocalyx (12)
  • Thecophyllum (4)
  • Tillandsia (1351)
  • Vriesea (226)
  • Werauhia (4)
  • Wittmackia (3)