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; algae worldwide, especially Cyanobacteria; economic botany.

Collection Manager (Mycology & Lichenology): Todd Widhelm, twidhelm@fieldmuseum.org, 3126657057 (ORCID #: 0000-0001-6453-3429)
Curator: H. Thorsten Lumbsch, tlumbsch@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 26 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
Field Museum
1400 S Lake Shore Drive
Gantz Family Collection Center
Chicago, Illinois   60605
United States
3126657057
Collection Statistics
  • 71,428 specimen records
  • 42,703 (60%) georeferenced
  • 41,088 (58%) with images (100,480 total images)
  • 53,795 (75%) identified to species
  • 164 families
  • 859 genera
  • 7,826 species
  • 8,472 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthothecis (8)
  • Acanthotrema (6)
  • Aggregatorygma (1)
  • Amazonotrema (1)
  • Ampliotrema (12)
  • Anomomorpha (3)
  • Asteristion (1)
  • Astrochapsa (6)
  • Austrotrema (1)
  • Byssotrema (1)
  • Carbacanthographis (19)
  • Chapsa (115)
  • Chroodiscus (46)
  • Clandestinotrema (4)
  • Compositrema (1)
  • Corticorygma (2)
  • Cruentotrema (10)
  • Crutarndina (1)
  • Cyclographina (5)
  • Diorygma (65)
  • Diploschistes (295)
  • Dyplolabia (30)
  • Enigmotrema (1)
  • Fissurina (146)
  • Flegographa (4)
  • Gintarasia (1)
  • Glaucinaria (12)
  • Glaucotrema (4)
  • Glyphis (78)
  • Graphina (142)
  • Graphinomyces (1)
  • Graphis (1401)
  • Gymnographopsis (1)
  • Gyrostomum (19)
  • Gyrotrema (7)
  • Halegrapha (3)
  • Heiomasia (2)
  • Helminthocarpon (4)
  • Hemithecium (48)
  • Leiorreuma (10)
  • Leptotrema (9)
  • Leucodecton (28)
  • Malmographina (2)
  • Medusulina (11)
  • Melanotrema (1)
  • Myriochapsa (1)
  • Myriotrema (92)
  • Nitidochapsa (2)
  • Ocellularia (512)
  • Pallidogramme (5)
  • Phaeographina (28)
  • Phaeographis (259)
  • Phaeographopsis (10)
  • Platygramme (11)
  • Platythecium (11)
  • Pseudochapsa (11)
  • Pseudotopeliopsis (1)
  • Pycnotrema (2)
  • Redingeria (2)
  • Redonographa (1)
  • Rhabdodiscus (18)
  • Sarcographa (120)
  • Sarcographina (3)
  • Schizotrema (3)
  • Stegobolus (47)
  • Thalloloma (11)
  • Thelotrema (283)
  • Topeliopsis (13)
  • Urceolaria (104)
  • Wirthiotrema (15)
  • Xalocoa (1)