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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
  • Abatia (19)
  • Banara (48)
  • Carpotroche (94)
  • Casearia (607)
  • Flacourtia (7)
  • Hasseltia (101)
  • Hasseltiopsis (28)
  • Homalium (29)
  • Lacistema (128)
  • Laetia (45)
  • Lindackeria (17)
  • Lozania (117)
  • Lunania (74)
  • Macrohasseltia (33)
  • Mayna (38)
  • Pleuranthodendron (50)
  • Prockia (49)
  • Ryania (57)
  • Tetrathylacium (62)
  • Xylosma (213)
  • Zuelania (9)