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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
  • Amyris (68)
  • Angostura (23)
  • Casimiroa (20)
  • Citrus (15)
  • Decazyx (14)
  • Erythrochiton (21)
  • Esenbeckia (31)
  • Galipea (31)
  • Hortia (1)
  • Lubaria (9)
  • Metrodorea (1)
  • Murraya (4)
  • Peltostigma (52)
  • Pilocarpus (20)
  • Raputia (12)
  • Ravenia (46)
  • Ruta (3)
  • Stauranthus (24)
  • Swinglea (1)
  • Ticorea (8)
  • Toxosiphon (34)
  • Zanthoxylum (372)