Field Museum of Natural History (F)
Additional electronic access to F database is available at: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/Query.php. Specialty: 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; economic botany.
Contacts: Wyatt Gaswick, wgaswick@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Collection Statistics
- 103,469 specimen records
- 77,187 (75%) georeferenced
- 53,124 (51%) with images (110,488 total images)
- 3 GenBank, 1 misc genetic references
- 7,982 (8%) identified to species
- 410 families
- 569 genera
- 1,094 species
- 1,116 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
