Museo Nacional de Costa Rica

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  • Name

    Museo Nacional de Costa Rica

  • Herbarium Code

    CR

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Armando Estrada, Director, aestrada@museocostarica.go.cr

  • Contact

    [506] 22337164
    Fax: [506] 22337164
    Email: aestrada@museocostarica.go.cr

  • Address

    Herbario Nacional
    Museo Nacional de Costa Rica
    Apartado Postal 749-1000
    San José
    Costa Rica
    http://ecobiosis.museocostarica.go.cr/index.aspx

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: Tropical ferns; tropical fungi

    Geography: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics

  • Notes

    Updated Mar 2016 (geocoordinates updated). The former INB collections are still housed in the same building in Santo Domingo de Heredia where they have been for the last few years (see INB for the exact location), but are now administered by the Museo Nacional. Specimens from INB should now be cited as CR. A database and type photographs are available here: http://ecobiosis.museocostarica.go.cr/especimenes/Buscador.aspx

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  • Number of Specimens

    495000

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae
    Bryophytes
    Fungi/Lichens
    Pteridophytes
    Seed Plants
  • Date Founded

    1887

  • Updated

    /03/2016

  • Incorporated Herbaria

    Herbario Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INB);
    Part of CATIE.

  • Important Collectors

    P. H. Allen, P. Biolley, A. M. Brenes, A. Curt Brade, A. Jiménez, O. Jiménez, J. León, H. F. Pittier, P. C. Standley, A. Tonduz, J. Valerio, H. Weber, K. Wercklé