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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
  • Abildgaardia (2)
  • Becquerelia (1)
  • Bolboschoenus (22)
  • Bulbostylis (42)
  • Calyptrocarya (4)
  • Carex (16681)
  • Ceratoschoenus (1)
  • Chlorocyperus (1)
  • Cladium (33)
  • Cymophyllus (1)
  • Cyperus (422)
  • Dichromena (9)
  • Diplasia (1)
  • Dulichium (23)
  • Eleocharis (281)
  • Eriophorum (48)
  • Fimbristylis (50)
  • Fuirena (13)
  • Gahnia (1)
  • Hypolytrum (5)
  • Hypoporum (1)
  • Isolepis (3)
  • Juncus (1)
  • Kyllinga (12)
  • Lipocarpha (36)
  • Mapania (3)
  • Mariscus (1)
  • Ophryoscleria (1)
  • Oreobolus (3)
  • Psilocarya (1)
  • Pycreus (8)
  • Remirea (3)
  • Rhynchospora (197)
  • Schoenoplectiella (22)
  • Schoenoplectus (117)
  • Schoenus (1)
  • Scirpus (162)
  • Scleria (107)
  • Stenophyllus (2)
  • Trichophorum (3)
  • Uncinia (2)