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
  • 42,714 (60%) georeferenced
  • 41,088 (58%) with images (100,480 total images)
  • 53,805 (75%) identified to species
  • 164 families
  • 859 genera
  • 7,827 species
  • 8,473 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Florida
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Bay (4)
  • Bradford (2)
  • Brevard (9)
  • Broward (1)
  • Calhoun (1)
  • Carroll (3)
  • Charlotte (5)
  • Citrus (11)
  • Clay (21)
  • Collier (330)
  • Columbia (23)
  • Dixie (2)
  • Duval (633)
  • Escambia (9)
  • Franklin (7)
  • Gadsden (8)
  • Hamilton (4)
  • Hernando (18)
  • Highlands (45)
  • Hillsborough (73)
  • Holmes (1)
  • Indian River (2)
  • Jackson (1)
  • Lafayette (2)
  • Lake (173)
  • Lee (60)
  • Leon (9)
  • Levy (4)
  • Liberty (2)
  • Manatee (99)
  • Marion (41)
  • Martin (1)
  • Miami-Dade (11)
  • Monroe (29)
  • Nassau (4)
  • Okaloosa (2)
  • Okeechobee (1)
  • Orange (209)
  • Osceola (19)
  • Pasco (2)
  • Pinellas (3)
  • Polk (26)
  • Putnam (1)
  • Santa Rosa (3)
  • Sarasota (11)
  • Seminole (140)
  • St. Johns (2)
  • Sumter (1)
  • Taylor (3)
  • Volusia (99)
  • Wakulla (6)
  • Walton (2)