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
  • Aa (2)
  • Acostaea (18)
  • Acronia (1)
  • Acrorchis (4)
  • Ada (1)
  • Arpophyllum (4)
  • Arundina (1)
  • Aspasia (10)
  • Aspidogyne (1)
  • Barbosella (22)
  • Barkeria (8)
  • Baskervilla (4)
  • Beloglottis (3)
  • Bletia (10)
  • Brachionidium (5)
  • Brachystele (4)
  • Brassavola (6)
  • Brassia (10)
  • Bulbophyllum (1)
  • Calanthe (12)
  • Campylocentrum (25)
  • Catasetum (16)
  • Cattleya (5)
  • Caularthron (3)
  • Chelyorchis (3)
  • Chysis (2)
  • Cischweinfia (1)
  • Cleistes (1)
  • Coccineorchis (18)
  • Cochleanthes (2)
  • Coelia (1)
  • Cohniella (2)
  • Comparettia (11)
  • Coryanthes (2)
  • Corymborkis (4)
  • Cranichis (25)
  • Crossoglossa (18)
  • Cryptarrhena (2)
  • Cryptocentrum (10)
  • Cuitlauzina (3)
  • Cyclopogon (9)
  • Cycnoches (2)
  • Cyrtochiloides (6)
  • Cyrtopodium (2)
  • Daiotyla (1)
  • Dichaea (50)
  • Dimerandra (2)
  • Dracula (6)
  • Dresslerella (1)
  • Dryadella (1)
  • Echinosepala (3)
  • Elleanthus (187)
  • Encyclia (24)
  • Epidanthus (1)
  • Epidendrum (154)
  • Erycina (2)
  • Eulophia (1)
  • Eurystyles (1)
  • Fernandezia (1)
  • Funkiella (2)
  • Galeandra (3)
  • Galeottia (4)
  • Gomphichis (1)
  • Gongora (9)
  • Goniochilus (1)
  • Goodyera (4)
  • Govenia (1)
  • Habenaria (11)
  • Homalopetalum (1)
  • Huntleya (1)
  • Hybochilus (1)
  • Ionopsis (1)
  • Isochilus (2)
  • Jacquiniella (5)
  • Kefersteinia (1)
  • Kreodanthus (1)
  • Laelia (2)
  • Leochilus (3)
  • Lepanthes (29)
  • Leucohyle (1)
  • Ligeophila (1)
  • Liparis (3)
  • Lockhartia (10)
  • Lycaste (6)
  • Macroclinium (1)
  • Malaxis (13)
  • Masdevallia (18)
  • Maxillaria (88)
  • Mesospinidium (1)
  • Microchilus (5)
  • Miltoniopsis (1)
  • Mormodes (2)
  • Myoxanthus (3)
  • Neowilliamsia (3)
  • Nidema (2)
  • Notylia (1)
  • Oeceoclades (1)
  • Oerstedella (21)
  • Oncidium (22)
  • Ornithocephalus (3)
  • Pachyphyllum (4)
  • Palmorchis (8)
  • Pelexia (2)
  • Peristeria (2)
  • Pescatoria (2)
  • Phragmipedium (2)
  • Platyglottis (1)
  • Platystele (6)
  • Platythelys (1)
  • Pleurothallis (68)
  • Pogonia (1)
  • Polycycnis (2)
  • Polystachya (2)
  • Ponthieva (4)
  • Prescottia (2)
  • Prosthechea (18)
  • Psilochilus (1)
  • Pterichis (3)
  • Restrepia (2)
  • Restrepiopsis (1)
  • Rhynchostele (1)
  • Rodriguezia (1)
  • Rossioglossum (1)
  • Rudolfiella (1)
  • Sarcoglottis (3)
  • Scaphosepalum (3)
  • Scaphyglottis (29)
  • Selenipedium (1)
  • Sievekingia (1)
  • Sigmatostalix (6)
  • Sobralia (33)
  • Solenocentrum (1)
  • Stanhopea (4)
  • Stelis (36)
  • Stenorrhynchos (2)
  • Stenotyla (9)
  • Systeloglossum (2)
  • Telipogon (12)
  • Ticoglossum (2)
  • Trichocentrum (4)
  • Trichosalpinx (3)
  • Trigonidium (2)
  • Triphora (1)
  • Trizeuxis (1)
  • Vanilla (1)
  • Warczewiczella (10)
  • Warreopsis (3)
  • Xylobium (5)
  • Zhukowskia (1)