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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
  • Acerates (3)
  • Ampelamus (2)
  • Amphistelma (1)
  • Amphorella (1)
  • Anemotrochus (19)
  • Asclepias (3718)
  • Asclepiodora (1)
  • Astephanus (1)
  • Blepharodon (128)
  • Calotropis (57)
  • Chthamalia (1)
  • Cryptostegia (25)
  • Cynanchum (186)
  • Dictyanthus (100)
  • Ditassa (1)
  • Fimbristemma (3)
  • Fischeria (78)
  • Funastrum (317)
  • Gomphocarpus (9)
  • Gonolobus (518)
  • Himantostemma (2)
  • Ibatia (9)
  • Jobinia (1)
  • Lachnostoma (1)
  • Macroscepis (61)
  • Marsdenia (330)
  • Matelea (495)
  • Metalepis (7)
  • Metastelma (457)
  • Orthosia (116)
  • Oxypetalum (30)
  • Pattalias (23)
  • Pergularia (1)
  • Periploca (7)
  • Pherotrichis (3)
  • Philibertia (1)
  • Podostemma (1)
  • Poicilla (1)
  • Polystemma (67)
  • Prosthecidiscus (8)
  • Rothrockia (3)
  • Rouliniella (1)
  • Sarcostemma (94)
  • Scyphostelma (4)
  • Seutera (26)
  • Stapelia (1)
  • Stephanotis (4)
  • Tassadia (17)
  • Trichostelma (1)
  • Vincetoxicum (51)