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Towson University Biodiversity Center

Specimen Records: 2,788
Media Records: 2,778
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

The herbarium (BALT) was formally organized in 1967 under the directorship of Dr. Mary Castelli. Two years following its establishment, Dr. Donald Windler joined the faculty and became the curator of the collection. Following the retirement of Dr. Windler (in 2003), Dr. Roberts assumed the directorship of the collections. During Dr. Windler’s tenure, the collection grew extensively. The core collection is built around a donation of specimens from the Maryland Natural History Society. The donation includes specimens from as early as 1864 and represents historic records of species distribution in Maryland and the mid-Atlantic region.

Contacts

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EmailBryophyteConsortium@gmail.com
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EmailBryophyteConsortium@gmail.com
Namenone
Rolenone
Emaildhearn@towson.edu
Name David Hearn, Curator of Botany
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Emaildhearn@towson.edu
Name David Hearn, Curator of Botany
Rolenone
Emaildhearn@towson.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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i2780
99.713
dwc_continent_added  i2773
99.462
dwc_datasetid_added  i2709
97.166
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i2709
97.166
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i2709
97.166
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i2709
97.166
gbif_canonicalname_added  i2709
97.166
gbif_genericname_added  i2709
97.166
gbif_taxon_corrected  i2709
97.166
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2556
91.679
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2312
82.927
gbif_reference_added  i2305
82.676
dwc_multimedia_added  i1630
58.465
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i1508
54.089
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i552
19.799
dwc_order_replaced  i541
19.405
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i532
19.082
taxon_match_failed  i390
13.989
dwc_family_replaced  i330
11.836
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i307
11.011
dwc_class_replaced  i142
5.093
dwc_genus_replaced  i95
3.407
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i37
1.327
dwc_phylum_replaced  i37
1.327
dwc_order_added  i9
0.323
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i6
0.215
dwc_country_replaced  i4
0.143
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i3
0.108
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