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
  • 42,530 (60%) georeferenced
  • 41,088 (58%) with images (100,480 total images)
  • 53,738 (75%) identified to species
  • 164 families
  • 859 genera
  • 7,819 species
  • 8,461 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Adelolecia (1)
  • Arthrospora (1)
  • Arthrosporum (8)
  • Auriculora (3)
  • Bacidia (584)
  • Bacidina (40)
  • Bacidiopsora (7)
  • Badimia (29)
  • Biatora (207)
  • Biatorina (19)
  • Bilimbia (79)
  • Catillochroma (9)
  • Catinaria (45)
  • Cliostomum (56)
  • Crocynia (17)
  • Dimerospora (1)
  • Eschatogonia (3)
  • Heppsora (1)
  • Herteliana (1)
  • Japewia (5)
  • Lecania (119)
  • Lopezaria (8)
  • Megalaria (21)
  • Niebla (65)
  • Phyllopsora (136)
  • Physcidia (7)
  • Platysma (3)
  • Psorella (3)
  • Ramalina (1022)
  • Squamacidia (1)
  • Tibellia (1)
  • Toninia (104)
  • Toniniopsis (1)
  • Trichoramalina (1)
  • Triclinum (1)
  • Vermilacinia (47)
  • Waynea (2)