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
  • Acrostichum (25)
  • Adiantopsis (71)
  • Adiantum (1090)
  • Aleuritopteris (4)
  • Ananthacorus (17)
  • Anetium (25)
  • Anogramma (10)
  • Antrophyum (2)
  • Argyrochosma (82)
  • Astrolepis (25)
  • Ceratopteris (34)
  • Cheilanthes (533)
  • Cryptogramma (1)
  • Doryopteris (154)
  • Eriosorus (236)
  • Gymnogramme (1)
  • Gymnopteris (1)
  • Hecistopteris (21)
  • Hemionitis (43)
  • Jamesonia (245)
  • Llavea (2)
  • Myriopteris (17)
  • Notholaena (16)
  • Ormopteris (2)
  • Pellaea (132)
  • Pityrogramma (408)
  • Polytaenium (80)
  • Pteris (418)
  • Pterozonium (18)
  • Radiovittaria (34)
  • Scoliosorus (1)
  • Trachypteris (7)
  • Trismeria (18)
  • Vittaria (169)