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Tropicos MO Specimen Data

Specimen Records: 4,074,912
Media Records: 1,508,087
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-02-21

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
Rolenone
Emailheather.stimmel@mobot.org
Name Jordan Teisher
RoleCurator and Director of the Herbarium
Emailjteisher@mobot.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  i3916783
96.119
dwc_datasetid_added  i3316558
81.39
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3316558
81.39
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i3316558
81.39
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3316558
81.39
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3316558
81.39
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3316558
81.39
gbif_genericname_added  i3316558
81.39
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3316558
81.39
dwc_class_added  i3316526
81.389
dwc_phylum_added  i3316526
81.389
dwc_order_added  i3316337
81.384
geopoint_datum_missing  i2703095
66.335
gbif_reference_added  i2702813
66.328
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2377638
58.348
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2107111
51.709
dwc_multimedia_added  i1712475
42.025
taxon_match_failed  i1673869
41.077
dwc_continent_replaced  i1592069
39.07
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i771901
18.943
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i325239
7.981
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i253470
6.22
dwc_specificepithet_added  i133272
3.271
dwc_genus_replaced  i121453
2.981
dwc_family_replaced  i85393
2.096
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i81433
1.998
rev_geocode_eez  i50882
1.249
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i46966
1.153
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i35165
0.863
rev_geocode_mismatch  i25290
0.621
dwc_country_replaced  i15593
0.383
rev_geocode_corrected  i4709
0.116
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i4399
0.108
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i2365
0.058
dwc_family_added  i1751
0.043
geopoint_0_coord  i1383
0.034
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i735
0.018
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i479
0.012
datecollected_bounds  i371
0.009
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i226
0.006
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i60
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i28
0.001
rev_geocode_flip  i22
0.001
rev_geocode_failure  i15
0
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i11
0
dwc_genus_added  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i1
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i1
0
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