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
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 January 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 191,859 specimen records
  • 112,770 (59%) georeferenced
  • 281 families
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Ailanthus (1)
  • Alvaradoa (28)
  • Picramnia (257)
  • Picrasma (11)
  • Quassia (36)
  • Recchia (3)
  • Simaba (25)
  • Simarouba (67)