Field Museum of Natural History (F-Plants)

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.
Contacts: Christine Niezgoda, cniezgoda@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 September 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
Collection Statistics
  • 36,479 specimen records
  • 29,334 (80%) georeferenced
  • 25,980 (71%) with images (35,622 total images)
  • 34,638 (95%) identified to species
  • 240 families
  • 1,842 genera
  • 8,463 species
  • 8,657 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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Taxon Distribution
  • Aphelandra (27)
  • Barleria (3)
  • Beloperone (2)
  • Blechum (3)
  • Bravaisia (2)
  • Chamaeranthemum (1)
  • Dicliptera (6)
  • Dyschoriste (1)
  • Henrya (1)
  • Herpetacanthus (12)
  • Hygrophila (1)
  • Jacobinia (1)
  • Justicia (27)
  • Kalbreyeriella (2)
  • Lepidagathis (1)
  • Louteridium (1)
  • Mendoncia (15)
  • Nelsonia (1)
  • Odontonema (7)
  • Pachystachys (1)
  • Pseuderanthemum (2)
  • Razisea (7)
  • Ruellia (27)
  • Spathacanthus (3)
  • Staurogyne (1)
  • Stenostephanus (1)
  • Streblacanthus (4)
  • Thunbergia (1)
  • Trichanthera (1)