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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
  • Ahzolia (1)
  • Anguria (15)
  • Apodanthera (8)
  • Bryonia (4)
  • Cayaponia (29)
  • Cionosicys (12)
  • Citrullus (6)
  • Corallocarpus (3)
  • Cucumis (19)
  • Cucurbita (38)
  • Cyclanthera (72)
  • Echinocystis (38)
  • Echinopepon (16)
  • Elaterium (29)
  • Fevillea (2)
  • Frantzia (1)
  • Gurania (17)
  • Hanburia (11)
  • Ibervillea (4)
  • Lagenaria (3)
  • Luffa (24)
  • Maximowiczia (1)
  • Megarrhiza (2)
  • Melothria (49)
  • Microsechium (11)
  • Momordica (35)
  • Parasicyos (5)
  • Peponopsis (5)
  • Pittiera (3)
  • Polyclathra (3)
  • Psiguria (9)
  • Pterosicyos (2)
  • Rytidostylis (2)
  • Schizocarpum (4)
  • Sechiopsis (7)
  • Sechium (14)
  • Sicana (1)
  • Sicydium (39)
  • Sicyos (51)
  • Tecunumania (4)
  • Trianosperma (2)