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Tropicos MO Specimen Data

Specimen Records: 4,322,958
Media Records: 2,113,315
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-11-25

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
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  i4151817
96.041
dwc_datasetid_added  i3515873
81.33
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3515873
81.33
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i3515873
81.33
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3515873
81.33
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3515873
81.33
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3515873
81.33
gbif_genericname_added  i3515873
81.33
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3515873
81.33
dwc_class_added  i3515837
81.329
dwc_phylum_added  i3515837
81.329
dwc_order_added  i3515648
81.325
gbif_reference_added  i2874161
66.486
geopoint_datum_missing  i2784902
64.421
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2513069
58.133
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2221930
51.398
dwc_multimedia_added  i1806543
41.79
taxon_match_failed  i1762963
40.781
dwc_continent_replaced  i1721645
39.826
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i817838
18.918
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i347380
8.036
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i267163
6.18
dwc_specificepithet_added  i140907
3.26
dwc_genus_replaced  i128673
2.977
dwc_family_replaced  i90164
2.086
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i86323
1.997
rev_geocode_eez  i52449
1.213
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i52241
1.208
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i37126
0.859
rev_geocode_mismatch  i26101
0.604
dwc_country_replaced  i23958
0.554
rev_geocode_corrected  i4851
0.112
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i4502
0.104
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i2709
0.063
dwc_family_added  i1750
0.04
geopoint_0_coord  i1388
0.032
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i760
0.018
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i496
0.011
datecollected_bounds  i387
0.009
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i250
0.006
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i59
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i42
0.001
rev_geocode_flip  i38
0.001
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i22
0.001
rev_geocode_failure  i15
0
dwc_genus_added  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i1
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i1
0
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