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
  • Ahtiana (15)
  • Alectoria (418)
  • Allantoparmelia (2)
  • Allocetraria (62)
  • Almbornia (1)
  • Anzia (18)
  • Arctocetraria (2)
  • Arctoparmelia (17)
  • Asahinea (9)
  • Brodoa (16)
  • Bryocaulon (32)
  • Bryoria (268)
  • Bulbothrix (44)
  • Canomaculina (6)
  • Canoparmelia (74)
  • Cavernularia (7)
  • Cetraria (825)
  • Cetrariastrum (6)
  • Cetrariella (3)
  • Cetrariopsis (1)
  • Cetrelia (53)
  • Cetreliopsis (2)
  • Chondropsis (3)
  • Coelocaulon (66)
  • Cornicularia (24)
  • Coronoplectrum (1)
  • Dactylina (23)
  • Esslingeriana (2)
  • Evernia (308)
  • Everniastrum (56)
  • Everniopsis (14)
  • Flavocetraria (109)
  • Flavoparmelia (315)
  • Flavopunctelia (138)
  • Gowardia (1)
  • Himantormia (2)
  • Hypogymnia (584)
  • Hypotrachyna (199)
  • Imshaugia (53)
  • Kaernefeltia (44)
  • Letharia (172)
  • Lethariella (13)
  • Lichen (675)
  • Masonhalea (14)
  • Melanelia (725)
  • Melanelixia (63)
  • Melanohalea (204)
  • Menegazzia (45)
  • Montanelia (2)
  • Myelochroa (90)
  • Neofuscelia (23)
  • Neoprotoparmelia (1)
  • Nephromopsis (45)
  • Neuropogon (7)
  • Nimisia (1)
  • Nipponoparmelia (2)
  • Nodobryoria (29)
  • Omphalodium (3)
  • Omphalora (9)
  • Oropogon (76)
  • Pannoparmelia (1)
  • Paraparmelia (5)
  • Parmelia (1629)
  • Parmelina (72)
  • Parmelinella (13)
  • Parmelinopsis (26)
  • Parmeliopsis (231)
  • Parmotrema (682)
  • Phacopsis (4)
  • Platismatia (238)
  • Pleurosticta (2)
  • Protoparmelia (21)
  • Protousnea (3)
  • Pseudephebe (28)
  • Pseudevernia (109)
  • Pseudoparmelia (31)
  • Psiloparmelia (3)
  • Punctelia (268)
  • Relicina (19)
  • Relicinopsis (7)
  • Rimelia (43)
  • Rimeliella (2)
  • Squamaria (1)
  • Sulcaria (2)
  • Tuckermanella (3)
  • Tuckermannopsis (79)
  • Tuckermanopsis (44)
  • Tuckneraria (6)
  • Usnea (1929)
  • Usnocetraria (3)
  • Vulpicida (145)
  • Xanthomaculina (5)
  • Xanthoparmelia (587)