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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
  • Aiouea (57)
  • Aniba (25)
  • Beilschmiedia (175)
  • Caryodaphnopsis (19)
  • Cassytha (6)
  • Cinnamomum (184)
  • Endlicheria (10)
  • Gamanthera (4)
  • Licaria (161)
  • Litsea (11)
  • Nectandra (644)
  • Ocotea (1391)
  • Persea (106)
  • Pleurothyrium (36)
  • Povedadaphne (8)
  • Rhodostemonodaphne (2)
  • Williamodendron (7)