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West Virginia University Herbarium - Bryophytes

Specimen Records: 4,478
Media Records: 4,009
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-01-31

The West Virginia University Herbarium, the largest such facility in the state, contains about 185,000 mounted and cataloged vascular plant specimens and approximately 26,000 bryophyte and lichen specimens. The collection was started in 1889 and has steadily increased since then. It is designated a National Resource Collection and contains the best collection in the world of West Virginia and Central Appalachian vascular plants. In addition there are over 25,000 color photographic slides that comprise the Earl L. Core Botanical Slide Collection and over 2,000 seed collections in the Elizabeth A. Bartholomew Seed Collection.

Contacts

Namenone
Rolenone
EmailBryophyteConsortium@gmail.com
Namenone
Rolenone
EmailBryophyteConsortium@gmail.com
Namenone
Rolenone
Emaildford2@wvu.edu
Name Donna Ford-Werntz, Curator
Rolenone
Emaildford2@wvu.edu
Name Donna Ford-Werntz, Curator
Rolenone
Emaildford2@wvu.edu
  • 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
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99.888
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99.754
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95.087
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95.087
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95.087
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95.087
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95.087
gbif_genericname_added  i4258
95.087
gbif_taxon_corrected  i4258
95.087
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i3888
86.824
gbif_vernacularname_added  i3676
82.09
gbif_reference_added  i2886
64.448
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i2517
56.208
dwc_multimedia_added  i2316
51.72
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27.713
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19.897
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14.471
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14.292
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12.26
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10.339
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7.347
dwc_class_replaced  i226
5.047
dwc_country_replaced  i190
4.243
dwc_genus_replaced  i187
4.176
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i66
1.474
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1.05
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0.469
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0.246
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i10
0.223
dwc_phylum_replaced  i9
0.201
rev_geocode_mismatch  i3
0.067
rev_geocode_corrected  i2
0.045
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i2
0.045
rev_geocode_eez  i1
0.022
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