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Tropicos MO Specimen Data

Specimen Records: 4,496,509
Media Records: 2,633,482
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

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
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  i4316975
96.007
dwc_datasetid_added  i3652884
81.238
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3652884
81.238
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i3652884
81.238
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3652884
81.238
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3652884
81.238
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3652884
81.238
gbif_genericname_added  i3652884
81.238
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3652884
81.238
dwc_class_added  i3652847
81.237
dwc_phylum_added  i3652847
81.237
dwc_order_added  i3652658
81.233
gbif_reference_added  i2983802
66.358
geopoint_datum_missing  i2836948
63.092
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2603645
57.904
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2312418
51.427
dwc_multimedia_added  i1880649
41.825
taxon_match_failed  i1834310
40.794
dwc_continent_replaced  i1820855
40.495
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i850017
18.904
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i363048
8.074
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i278619
6.196
dwc_specificepithet_added  i144105
3.205
dwc_genus_replaced  i133761
2.975
dwc_family_replaced  i92792
2.064
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i90124
2.004
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i56051
1.247
rev_geocode_eez  i53476
1.189
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i39900
0.887
dwc_country_replaced  i28893
0.643
rev_geocode_mismatch  i26705
0.594
rev_geocode_corrected  i4947
0.11
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i4547
0.101
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i2993
0.067
dwc_family_added  i1750
0.039
geopoint_0_coord  i1392
0.031
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i891
0.02
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i505
0.011
datecollected_bounds  i404
0.009
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i287
0.006
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i65
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i44
0.001
rev_geocode_flip  i44
0.001
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i30
0.001
rev_geocode_failure  i19
0
dwc_genus_added  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i2
0