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
  • Acalypha (437)
  • Acidoton (3)
  • Actinostemon (7)
  • Adelia (70)
  • Adenophaedra (21)
  • Alchornea (103)
  • Alchorneopsis (13)
  • Aleurites (3)
  • Amanoa (11)
  • Antidesma (1)
  • Aparisthmium (2)
  • Argythamnia (3)
  • Astraea (6)
  • Astrocasia (3)
  • Bernardia (14)
  • Caperonia (50)
  • Caryodendron (3)
  • Cleidion (23)
  • Cnidoscolus (31)
  • Codiaeum (8)
  • Conceveiba (16)
  • Croizatia (7)
  • Croton (720)
  • Dalechampia (142)
  • Ditaxis (1)
  • Drypetes (52)
  • Dysopsis (6)
  • Euphorbia (452)
  • Garcia (16)
  • Gitara (41)
  • Gymnanthes (32)
  • Hevea (11)
  • Hieronyma (174)
  • Hippomane (16)
  • Hura (44)
  • Jatropha (40)
  • Mabea (184)
  • Manihot (43)
  • Margaritaria (89)
  • Omphalea (24)
  • Pausandra (28)
  • Pedilanthus (1)
  • Pera (29)
  • Phyllanthus (241)
  • Plukenetia (33)
  • Richeria (35)
  • Ricinus (10)
  • Sagotia (9)
  • Sapium (214)
  • Sebastiania (39)
  • Senefeldera (3)
  • Stillingia (3)
  • Synadenium (4)
  • Tacarcuna (2)
  • Tetrorchidium (92)
  • Tragia (21)