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CAS Botany (BOT)

Specimen Records: 1,302,950
Media Records: 1,271,791
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-01-23

The electronic catalog of the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Contacts

Name Emily Magnaghi
RoleInterim Collections Manager, Botany
Emailemagnaghi@calacademy.org
Name Jon Fong
RoleCuratorial Assistant/Programmer
Emailjfong@calacademy.org
Name Emily Magnaghi
RoleInterim Collections Manager, Botany
Emailemagnaghi@calacademy.org
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i1295267
99.41
dwc_datasetid_added  i1122100
86.12
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1122100
86.12
dwc_taxonid_added  i1122100
86.12
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1122100
86.12
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1122100
86.12
gbif_genericname_added  i1122100
86.12
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1122100
86.12
dwc_phylum_replaced  i1018539
78.172
gbif_vernacularname_added  i988213
75.844
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i847419
65.038
gbif_reference_added  i845034
64.855
dwc_multimedia_added  i801755
61.534
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i641569
49.24
taxon_match_failed  i495325
38.016
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i238516
18.306
dwc_order_replaced  i194541
14.931
geopoint_datum_missing  i143960
11.049
dwc_family_replaced  i124309
9.541
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i96385
7.397
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i91027
6.986
dwc_class_added  i87218
6.694
dwc_order_added  i87218
6.694
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i56070
4.303
dwc_genus_replaced  i33475
2.569
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i19981
1.534
dwc_class_replaced  i11801
0.906
rev_geocode_eez  i6676
0.512
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i6074
0.466
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4866
0.373
geopoint_datum_error  i2883
0.221
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2445
0.188
dwc_genus_added  i1644
0.126
dwc_continent_replaced  i1610
0.124
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1546
0.119
rev_geocode_corrected  i1151
0.088
dwc_country_replaced  i962
0.074
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i832
0.064
dwc_specificepithet_added  i471
0.036
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i396
0.03
rev_geocode_failure  i375
0.029
datecollected_bounds  i256
0.02
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i234
0.018
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i54
0.004
geopoint_0_coord  i23
0.002
rev_geocode_both_sign  i21
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i21
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i7
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i5
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i3
0
dwc_family_added  i2
0
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i2
0
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i2
0
geopoint_pre_flip  i2
0
dwc_kingdom_added  i1
0
dwc_phylum_added  i1
0
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