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CAS Botany (BOT)

Specimen Records: 1,276,363
Media Records: 1,157,890
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-08-21

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  i1271920
99.652
dwc_datasetid_added  i1100399
86.214
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1100399
86.214
dwc_taxonid_added  i1100399
86.214
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1100399
86.214
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1100399
86.214
gbif_genericname_added  i1100399
86.214
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1100399
86.214
dwc_phylum_replaced  i995590
78.002
gbif_vernacularname_added  i971733
76.133
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i834107
65.35
gbif_reference_added  i829535
64.992
dwc_multimedia_added  i788814
61.802
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i630264
49.38
taxon_match_failed  i483268
37.863
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i235132
18.422
dwc_order_replaced  i194190
15.214
geopoint_datum_missing  i144036
11.285
dwc_family_replaced  i123515
9.677
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i94480
7.402
dwc_class_added  i88291
6.917
dwc_order_added  i88291
6.917
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i86693
6.792
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i51658
4.047
dwc_genus_replaced  i33110
2.594
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i19688
1.543
dwc_class_replaced  i11805
0.925
rev_geocode_eez  i6707
0.525
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i6064
0.475
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4856
0.38
geopoint_datum_error  i2881
0.226
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2502
0.196
dwc_genus_added  i1550
0.121
dwc_continent_replaced  i1479
0.116
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1348
0.106
rev_geocode_corrected  i1200
0.094
dwc_country_replaced  i949
0.074
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i827
0.065
dwc_specificepithet_added  i473
0.037
rev_geocode_failure  i433
0.034
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i396
0.031
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i289
0.023
datecollected_bounds  i258
0.02
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i54
0.004
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i29
0.002
geopoint_0_coord  i23
0.002
rev_geocode_both_sign  i20
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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