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
  • Asclepias (69)
  • Blepharodon (37)
  • Calotropis (1)
  • Cynanchum (5)
  • Fischeria (49)
  • Funastrum (28)
  • Gomphocarpus (1)
  • Gonolobus (74)
  • Ibatia (3)
  • Macroscepis (10)
  • Marsdenia (47)
  • Matelea (46)
  • Metalepis (2)
  • Metastelma (11)
  • Orthosia (24)
  • Oxypetalum (6)
  • Polystemma (20)
  • Scyphostelma (4)
  • Tassadia (16)
  • Vincetoxicum (3)