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.
Collections Manager: Kimberly Hansen, khansen@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 21 January 2021
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midwestherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/F-Botany_DwC-A.zip
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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Address:
Field Museum of Natural History
Herbarium
Botany Department
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496
U.S.A.
312-665-7861
Collection Statistics
- 222,524 specimen records
- 62,885 (28%) georeferenced
- 177,559 (80%) with images (180,619 total images)
- 213,966 (96%) identified to species
- 284 families
- 3,951 genera
- 29,027 species
- 31,129 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
