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Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR-Plantas)

Specialty: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics; tropical ferns; tropical fungi.
Date Founded: 1887.
Contacts: Armando Estrada, Director,, museohn@racsa.co.cr
Homepage: http://www.museocostarica.go.cr/en_en/en-detalle/herbario-nacional-de-costa-rica-en-l-nea.html?Itemid=115
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 January 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
  • 191,859 specimen records
  • 112,770 (59%) georeferenced
  • 281 families
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Taxon Distribution
  • Abarema (49)
  • Acacia (277)
  • Adenopodia (5)
  • Albizia (107)
  • Balizia (7)
  • Calliandra (223)
  • Cojoba (249)
  • Desmanthus (11)
  • Entada (47)
  • Enterolobium (43)
  • Inga (1746)
  • Larrea (2)
  • Leucaena (28)
  • Lysiloma (53)
  • Mimosa (346)
  • Neptunia (45)
  • Newtonia (11)
  • Parkia (11)
  • Pentaclethra (42)
  • Piptadenia (8)
  • Pithecellobium (106)
  • Prosopis (26)
  • Pseudosamanea (3)
  • Samanea (36)
  • Schrankia (5)
  • Sphinga (10)
  • Stryphnodendron (23)
  • Zapoteca (106)
  • Zygia (198)