F

• Name: Herbarium, Botany Department, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 South DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496, United States of America
• Herbarium Code: F

• Current Status: Active

• Number of Specimens: 2700000

• Taxonomic Coverage: Phanerogams; pteridophytes; bryophytes; mosses; hepatics; 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

• Geography: Worldwide with emphasis on tropical and North America, especially Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru; Central America, Andean South America, and Australasia; north temperate, South America, and south temperate

• Date Founded: 1893

Notes

• Also includes more than 72 000 type photographs, primarily of neotropical plants in major European herbaria (incl. B, G, M, W), taken prior to World War II.

References

• Grimé, W.E. & Plowman, T. 1986. Type Photographs at Field Museum of Natural History. Taxon 35(4): 932–934. DOI: 10.1002/j.1996-8175.1986.tb00854.x (via Wikipedia Library ).

External links

• Botanical Collections [official website]. Accessed: 22 August 2024.
• Index Herbariorum, NYBG Steere Herbarium. Accessed: 22 August 2024.