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
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
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.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Adenocalymma (21)
  • Amphilophium (48)
  • Amphitecna (84)
  • Anemopaegma (18)
  • Arrabidaea (28)
  • Astianthus (11)
  • Bignonia (34)
  • Callichlamys (11)
  • Campsis (1)
  • Catalpa (11)
  • Ceratophytum (1)
  • Chilopsis (2)
  • Clytostoma (11)
  • Crescentia (37)
  • Cuspidaria (1)
  • Cydista (39)
  • Dendrosicus (1)
  • Distictis (2)
  • Dolichandra (7)
  • Enallagma (9)
  • Fridericia (33)
  • Gibsoniothamnus (9)
  • Godmania (12)
  • Handroanthus (12)
  • Jacaranda (31)
  • Levya (1)
  • Lundia (6)
  • Macfadyena (15)
  • Mansoa (7)
  • Martinella (5)
  • Melloa (9)
  • Mussatia (3)
  • Neotuerckheimia (1)
  • Neurotecoma (1)
  • Pachyptera (3)
  • Pandorea (1)
  • Paragonia (11)
  • Parmentiera (32)
  • Petastoma (9)
  • Phryganocydia (1)
  • Pithecoctenium (8)
  • Pleonotoma (2)
  • Podranea (5)
  • Pseudocalymma (3)
  • Pseudocatalpa (4)
  • Pyrostegia (3)
  • Roseodendron (2)
  • Saldanhaea (2)
  • Schlegelia (21)
  • Spathodea (6)
  • Stizophyllum (8)
  • Tabebuia (68)
  • Tanaecium (11)
  • Tecoma (48)
  • Tecomaria (3)
  • Tourrettia (6)
  • Tynanthus (9)
  • Xylophragma (7)