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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
  • Acrodiclidium (1)
  • Aiouea (14)
  • Aniba (2)
  • Beilschmiedia (19)
  • Bellota (1)
  • Caryodaphnopsis (5)
  • Cassytha (2)
  • Chanekia (3)
  • Cinnamomum (16)
  • Cryptocarya (2)
  • Endlicheria (5)
  • Gamanthera (2)
  • Hufelandia (3)
  • Laurus (11)
  • Licaria (39)
  • Lindera (27)
  • Litsea (8)
  • Mespilodaphne (1)
  • Mezilaurus (1)
  • Misanteca (4)
  • Mocinnodaphne (1)
  • Nectandra (96)
  • Ocotea (228)
  • Oreodaphne (3)
  • Persea (97)
  • Phoebe (49)
  • Pleurothyrium (19)
  • Rhodostemonodaphne (1)
  • Sassafras (46)
  • Williamodendron (2)