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.)
Extra Statistics
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Taxon Distribution
  • Alansmia (1)
  • Ascogrammitis (11)
  • Campyloneurum (168)
  • Ceradenia (11)
  • Cochlidium (10)
  • Dicranoglossum (22)
  • Enterosora (17)
  • Grammitis (173)
  • Lellingeria (22)
  • Loxogramme (1)
  • Marginariopsis (2)
  • Melpomene (4)
  • Microgramma (39)
  • Neurodium (1)
  • Niphidium (15)
  • Pecluma (47)
  • Phlebodium (15)
  • Pleopeltis (40)
  • Polypodium (377)
  • Serpocaulon (4)
  • Solanopteris (1)
  • Stenogrammitis (20)
  • Terpsichore (13)
  • Zygophlebia (7)