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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
  • Acanthocereus (9)
  • Ancistrocactus (1)
  • Aporocactus (8)
  • Ariocarpus (4)
  • Astrophytum (2)
  • Bergerocactus (1)
  • Bonifazia (2)
  • Cactus (5)
  • Cephalocereus (16)
  • Cereus (12)
  • Coryphantha (17)
  • Dendrocereus (1)
  • Disocactus (9)
  • Echinocactus (24)
  • Echinocereus (42)
  • Echinomastus (4)
  • Epiphyllum (32)
  • Epithelantha (2)
  • Ferocactus (34)
  • Grusonia (4)
  • Harrisia (2)
  • Heliocereus (2)
  • Hylocereus (14)
  • Lemaireocereus (1)
  • Lophocereus (2)
  • Mammillaria (52)
  • Melocactus (11)
  • Micropuntia (3)
  • Myrtillocactus (5)
  • Neoabbottia (1)
  • Neobuxbaumia (2)
  • Neolloydia (1)
  • Neomammillaria (2)
  • Nopalea (6)
  • Opuntia (233)
  • Pachycereus (5)
  • Pereskia (4)
  • Pilosocereus (2)
  • Pseudorhipsalis (2)
  • Pterocereus (1)
  • Rhipsalis (43)
  • Sclerocactus (3)
  • Selenicereus (12)
  • Stenocactus (7)
  • Stenocereus (8)
  • Thelocactus (5)
  • Werckleocereus (1)
  • Wittia (1)