Collection code F

Herbarium - Field Museum of Natural History

From Field Museum of Natural History

collections-botany.fieldmuseum.org

United States of AmericaChicago

2,700,000 specimens

About

Description

Central and South America, temperate Australasian, North America, Europe

Taxonomic description

Phanerogams; pteridophytes; bryophytes; mosses; hepatics; 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

Geographic description

Worldwide with emphasis on tropical and North America, especially Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru; Central America, Andean South America, and Australasia; north temperate, South America, and south temperate

Temporal description

No information

Notes

Updated Jun 2023: electronic access to F database is available at: https://collections-botany.fieldmuseum.org/list Included are all types and more than 72 000 type photographs, primarily of neotropical plants in major European herbaria, taken prior to World War II.

Code

Number of specimens in collection

2,700,000

Online Catalog/Database

http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/search_bryo.php

Incorporated collections

Part of LCU
ABSH in 1986, 2012
NWU
fungi of CR
R. M. Schuster bryophyte collection
USFS forest survey collections of Costa Rica and Ecuador
University of Chicago
College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois Medical Center
CHI (26 000 specimens) in 1990 (Arecaceae) and 1998
The University of Nebraska at Omaha (OMA) lichen herbarium (over 20,000 specimens) in 2021.