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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
  • Bartonia (16)
  • Centaurium (23)
  • Chelonanthus (1)
  • Coutoubea (1)
  • Curtia (1)
  • Erythraea (3)
  • Eustoma (4)
  • Frasera (4)
  • Gentiana (164)
  • Gentianella (29)
  • Gentianopsis (88)
  • Halenia (36)
  • Leiphaimos (3)
  • Lisianthius (20)
  • Macrocarpaea (5)
  • Potalia (3)
  • Sabatia (75)
  • Schultesia (5)
  • Swertia (2)
  • Symbolanthus (4)
  • Voyria (10)
  • Xestaea (2)
  • Zeltnera (2)