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CAS Botany (BOT)

Specimen Records: 1,303,974
Media Records: 1,219,592
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-09-22

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  i1296282
99.41
dwc_datasetid_added  i1123185
86.136
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1123185
86.136
dwc_taxonid_added  i1123185
86.136
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1123185
86.136
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1123185
86.136
gbif_genericname_added  i1123185
86.136
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1123185
86.136
dwc_phylum_replaced  i1017691
78.045
gbif_vernacularname_added  i988958
75.842
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i848780
65.092
gbif_reference_added  i845903
64.871
dwc_multimedia_added  i802267
61.525
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i642361
49.262
taxon_match_failed  i495440
37.995
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i238666
18.303
dwc_order_replaced  i194383
14.907
geopoint_datum_missing  i144629
11.091
dwc_family_replaced  i124311
9.533
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i96765
7.421
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i91178
6.992
dwc_class_added  i88847
6.814
dwc_order_added  i88847
6.814
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i56081
4.301
dwc_genus_replaced  i33635
2.579
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i20010
1.535
dwc_class_replaced  i11879
0.911
rev_geocode_eez  i6750
0.518
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i6067
0.465
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4866
0.373
geopoint_datum_error  i2892
0.222
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2572
0.197
dwc_continent_replaced  i1632
0.125
dwc_genus_added  i1627
0.125
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1544
0.118
rev_geocode_corrected  i1263
0.097
dwc_country_replaced  i960
0.074
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i839
0.064
dwc_specificepithet_added  i487
0.037
rev_geocode_failure  i486
0.037
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i396
0.03
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i330
0.025
datecollected_bounds  i260
0.02
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i54
0.004
rev_geocode_both_sign  i30
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i29
0.002
geopoint_0_coord  i23
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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