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Tropicos MO Specimen Data

Specimen Records: 4,421,614
Media Records: 2,494,095
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-03-25

The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Herbarium is one of the world’s outstanding research resources for specimens and information on bryophytes and vascular plants. The collection is limited to these two major groups of plants. As of 31 December 2020 the herbarium collection had 6.93 million mounted specimens (6.33 million vascular plants and 598,000 bryophytes). This specimen dataset includes over 4.7 million records (4.3 million vascular plants and 380,000 bryophytes).

Contacts

Name Jordan Teisher
RoleCurator and Director of the Herbarium
Emailjteisher@mobot.org
Name Heather Stimmel
RoleProgrammer Analyst
Emailheather.stimmel@mobot.org
Name Heather Stimmel
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Emailheather.stimmel@mobot.org
Name Jordan Teisher
RoleCurator and Director of the Herbarium
Emailjteisher@mobot.org
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  i4245463
96.016
dwc_datasetid_added  i3593192
81.264
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3593192
81.264
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i3593192
81.264
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3593192
81.264
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3593192
81.264
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3593192
81.264
gbif_genericname_added  i3593192
81.264
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3593192
81.264
dwc_class_added  i3593156
81.263
dwc_phylum_added  i3593156
81.263
dwc_order_added  i3592967
81.259
gbif_reference_added  i2935795
66.396
geopoint_datum_missing  i2821589
63.814
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2564142
57.991
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2268987
51.316
dwc_multimedia_added  i1844367
41.713
taxon_match_failed  i1804087
40.802
dwc_continent_replaced  i1795075
40.598
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i835997
18.907
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i355921
8.05
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i273346
6.182
dwc_specificepithet_added  i142681
3.227
dwc_genus_replaced  i131232
2.968
dwc_family_replaced  i91142
2.061
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i88685
2.006
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i54449
1.231
rev_geocode_eez  i53045
1.2
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i39294
0.889
dwc_country_replaced  i27761
0.628
rev_geocode_mismatch  i26454
0.598
rev_geocode_corrected  i4912
0.111
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i4541
0.103
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i2788
0.063
dwc_family_added  i1750
0.04
geopoint_0_coord  i1390
0.031
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i816
0.018
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i499
0.011
datecollected_bounds  i398
0.009
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i265
0.006
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i63
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i43
0.001
rev_geocode_flip  i39
0.001
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i26
0.001
rev_geocode_failure  i17
0
dwc_genus_added  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i2
0