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
  • Agonimia (30)
  • Agonimiella (1)
  • Amphoridium (1)
  • Bagliettoa (3)
  • Catapyrenium (51)
  • Clavascidium (1)
  • Dermatocarpon (479)
  • Endocarpon (135)
  • Endopyrenium (4)
  • Entosthelia (1)
  • Flakea (5)
  • Heterocarpon (3)
  • Heteroplacidium (3)
  • Involucrocarpon (2)
  • Involucrothele (7)
  • Macentina (2)
  • Mastodia (1)
  • Melanotheca (23)
  • Muellerella (7)
  • Neocatapyrenium (2)
  • Normandina (21)
  • Paraphysothele (1)
  • Paraplacidiopsis (1)
  • Phaeospora (2)
  • Phylloblastia (4)
  • Placidiopsis (4)
  • Placidium (24)
  • Placopyrenium (1)
  • Polyblastia (24)
  • Psoroglaena (4)
  • Staurothele (38)
  • Telogalla (1)
  • Thelidiopsis (1)
  • Thelidium (24)
  • Verrucaria (382)
  • Wahlenbergiella (1)
  • Willeya (2)