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Collection Profile for:
Field Museum of Natural History (F-Botany)

Phanerogams worldwide with emphasis on tropical and North America, especially rich in collections from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru; pteridophytes worldwide with emphasis on Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru; bryophytes worldwide; mosses of North America, Central America, Andean South America, and Australasia; hepatics of north temperate, South America, and south temperate; all groups of fungi, especially basidiomycetes with emphasis on New World and lichenized fungi of north temperate and Central America; algae worldwide, especially Cyanobacteria; economic botany.

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Field Museum of Natural History
Herbarium
Botany Department
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL   60605-2496
U.S.A.
312-665-7861
http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/botany/collections

Collection Statistics

  • 233,154 specimen records
  • 82,628 (35%) georeferenced
  • 204,453 (88%) with media (210,218 total media)
  • 223,644 (96%) identified to species
  • 287 families
  • 4,002 genera
  • 30,283 species
  • 32,353 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 February 2025
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: Field Museum IPT instance
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acoelorraphe (12)
  • Acoelorrhaphe (2)
  • Acrocomia (1)
  • Aiphanes (3)
  • Asterogyne (1)
  • Astrocaryum (4)
  • Attalea (6)
  • Augustinea (1)
  • Bactris (20)
  • Brahea (1)
  • Calyptrogyne (7)
  • Chamaedorea (138)
  • Coccothrinax (14)
  • Cocos (3)
  • Collinia (4)
  • Colpothrinax (4)
  • Copernicia (87)
  • Corypha (3)
  • Cryosophila (6)
  • Desmoncus (14)
  • Elaeis (2)
  • Euterpe (4)
  • Gaussia (2)
  • Geonoma (36)
  • Hyospathe (2)
  • Inodes (1)
  • Iriartea (1)
  • Lobia (2)
  • Malortiea (5)
  • Opsiandra (6)
  • Orbignya (3)
  • Pholidostachys (3)
  • Phytelephas (1)
  • Plectis (3)
  • Prestoea (2)
  • Pseudophoenix (4)
  • Raphia (2)
  • Reinhardtia (9)
  • Rhapidophyllum (4)
  • Roystonea (5)
  • Sabal (6)
  • Scheelea (7)
  • Socratea (2)
  • Stachyophorbe (2)
  • Synechanthus (6)
  • Thrinax (27)
  • Trithrinax (2)
  • Welfia (3)