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CAS Botany (BOT)

Specimen Records: 1,306,100
Media Records: 1,269,663
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-10-29

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  i1298366
99.408
dwc_datasetid_added  i1125079
86.14
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1125079
86.14
dwc_taxonid_added  i1125079
86.14
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1125079
86.14
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1125079
86.14
gbif_genericname_added  i1125079
86.14
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1125079
86.14
dwc_phylum_replaced  i1018413
77.974
gbif_vernacularname_added  i990370
75.827
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i850359
65.107
gbif_reference_added  i847449
64.884
dwc_multimedia_added  i803306
61.504
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i643347
49.257
taxon_match_failed  i496087
37.982
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i239054
18.303
dwc_order_replaced  i194534
14.894
geopoint_datum_missing  i145568
11.145
dwc_family_replaced  i124705
9.548
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i97061
7.431
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i91431
7
dwc_class_added  i89797
6.875
dwc_order_added  i89797
6.875
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i56167
4.3
dwc_genus_replaced  i33735
2.583
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i20034
1.534
dwc_class_replaced  i12009
0.919
rev_geocode_eez  i6810
0.521
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i6073
0.465
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4876
0.373
geopoint_datum_error  i2896
0.222
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2655
0.203
dwc_genus_added  i1644
0.126
dwc_continent_replaced  i1639
0.125
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1544
0.118
rev_geocode_corrected  i1335
0.102
dwc_country_replaced  i960
0.074
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i850
0.065
rev_geocode_failure  i559
0.043
dwc_specificepithet_added  i493
0.038
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i396
0.03
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i370
0.028
datecollected_bounds  i260
0.02
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i54
0.004
rev_geocode_both_sign  i51
0.004
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i33
0.003
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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