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
  • Agouticarpa (3)
  • Alibertia (19)
  • Allenanthus (3)
  • Alseis (6)
  • Amaioua (10)
  • Amphidasya (3)
  • Appunia (3)
  • Arachnothryx (16)
  • Arcytophyllum (4)
  • Augusta (1)
  • Basanacantha (1)
  • Bertiera (6)
  • Borojoa (1)
  • Borreria (4)
  • Bouvardia (2)
  • Calderonia (2)
  • Calycophyllum (1)
  • Carapichea (4)
  • Cephaelis (6)
  • Chimarrhis (12)
  • Chiococca (6)
  • Chione (13)
  • Chomelia (19)
  • Cinchona (2)
  • Coccocypselum (6)
  • Coffea (1)
  • Condaminea (1)
  • Cordiera (3)
  • Cosmibuena (9)
  • Coussarea (27)
  • Coutarea (2)
  • Crusea (2)
  • Declieuxia (2)
  • Deppea (1)
  • Didymaea (2)
  • Diodia (1)
  • Duroia (2)
  • Elaeagia (11)
  • Eumachia (1)
  • Evea (1)
  • Faramea (54)
  • Ferdinandusa (6)
  • Galianthe (2)
  • Galium (4)
  • Genipa (7)
  • Geophila (2)
  • Gonzalagunia (17)
  • Guettarda (22)
  • Hamelia (14)
  • Hexasepalum (3)
  • Higginsia (1)
  • Hillia (20)
  • Hintonia (1)
  • Hippotis (2)
  • Hoffmannia (52)
  • Isertia (5)
  • Ixora (7)
  • Joosia (4)
  • Ladenbergia (12)
  • Lasianthus (1)
  • Lasionema (1)
  • Machaonia (6)
  • Macrocnemum (5)
  • Malanea (3)
  • Manettia (12)
  • Montamans (1)
  • Morinda (2)
  • Nertera (1)
  • Nothophlebia (1)
  • Notopleura (33)
  • Oregandra (1)
  • Palicourea (118)
  • Pentagonia (20)
  • Pittoniotis (1)
  • Pogonopus (1)
  • Posoqueria (21)
  • Psychotria (238)
  • Randia (52)
  • Raritebe (8)
  • Ravnia (3)
  • Richardia (2)
  • Rogiera (3)
  • Ronabea (2)
  • Rondeletia (18)
  • Rosenbergiodendron (5)
  • Rudgea (33)
  • Rustia (6)
  • Sabicea (5)
  • Schizocalyx (1)
  • Schradera (5)
  • Simira (11)
  • Sipanea (1)
  • Sommera (6)
  • Spermacoce (5)
  • Stachyarrhena (4)
  • Stenostomum (4)
  • Stomandra (1)
  • Tocoyena (5)
  • Uncaria (1)
  • Warszewiczia (8)
  • Watsonamra (2)
  • Xerococcus (1)