**Code**: [CR](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125343) **Organization**: Museo Nacional de Costa Rica **Location**: San José, Costa Rica **Total number of specimens**: 495000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1887 **Taxonomic coverage**: Tropical ferns; tropical fungi **Geographic coverage**: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics **Incorporated herbaria**: Part of CATIE., Herbario Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INB) **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 **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 **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2018-02-06 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.