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
  • Abarema (5)
  • Acacia (5)
  • Acaciella (1)
  • Adenopodia (2)
  • Aeschynomene (9)
  • Albizia (4)
  • Alysicarpus (2)
  • Andira (1)
  • Ateleia (3)
  • Barbieria (1)
  • Bauhinia (12)
  • Brownea (4)
  • Caesalpinia (6)
  • Cajanus (1)
  • Calliandra (9)
  • Calopogonium (4)
  • Canavalia (11)
  • Cashalia (1)
  • Cassia (8)
  • Centrolobium (1)
  • Centrosema (7)
  • Chaetocalyx (1)
  • Chamaecrista (3)
  • Chloroleucon (1)
  • Clitoria (5)
  • Cojoba (23)
  • Copaifera (8)
  • Coursetia (3)
  • Crotalaria (9)
  • Cynometra (4)
  • Dahlstedtia (2)
  • Dalbergia (10)
  • Derris (1)
  • Desmanthus (1)
  • Desmodium (29)
  • Dialium (6)
  • Dimorphandra (1)
  • Dioclea (13)
  • Diphysa (4)
  • Diplotropis (2)
  • Dipteryx (6)
  • Drepanocarpus (1)
  • Dussia (10)
  • Entada (8)
  • Enterolobium (8)
  • Eriosema (3)
  • Erythrina (22)
  • Fairchildia (2)
  • Fissicalyx (2)
  • Flemingia (2)
  • Galactia (1)
  • Gliricidia (2)
  • Hymenaea (5)
  • Hymenolobium (4)
  • Indigofera (7)
  • Inga (195)
  • Lecointea (5)
  • Lennea (1)
  • Leucaena (3)
  • Lonchocarpus (41)
  • Lupinus (5)
  • Machaerium (21)
  • Macrolobium (5)
  • Macroptilium (2)
  • Mimosa (17)
  • Mora (1)
  • Mucuna (14)
  • Muellera (1)
  • Myrospermum (3)
  • Myroxylon (2)
  • Nissolia (1)
  • Ormosia (13)
  • Pachyrhizus (1)
  • Paramachaerium (1)
  • Parkia (1)
  • Peltogyne (4)
  • Pentaclethra (9)
  • Phaseolus (5)
  • Piptadenia (1)
  • Pithecellobium (13)
  • Platymiscium (7)
  • Platypodium (2)
  • Prioria (10)
  • Pseudosamanea (2)
  • Pterocarpus (7)
  • Rhynchosia (10)
  • Samanea (1)
  • Schizolobium (3)
  • Schnella (5)
  • Sclerolobium (3)
  • Senegalia (4)
  • Senna (25)
  • Sophora (1)
  • Stryphnodendron (2)
  • Stylosanthes (2)
  • Swartzia (16)
  • Tachigali (10)
  • Tephrosia (2)
  • Teramnus (3)
  • Trifolium (1)
  • Ulex (1)
  • Vachellia (6)
  • Vatairea (3)
  • Vigna (8)
  • Vouapa (1)
  • Zapoteca (4)
  • Zornia (2)
  • Zygia (18)