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The vascular plants collection (P) at the Herbarium of the Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 5,606,886
Media Records: 5,628,544
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-04-18

The French National Herbarium, estimated at 8 million preserved specimens from around the world, but particularly in France, Francophone Africa, New Caledonia, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, in French Guiana . It also has important collections in light of the history of botany: Tournefort, Jussieu, Lamarck, Adanson, and those of famous travelers as Bonpland, Michaud, Saint-Hilaire, Richard, D'Orbigny etc. The designation at CITES is FR 75A. It publishes Adansonia, a botanical periodical, and journals on the flora of New Caledonia, Madagascar and Comores, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, Cameroon, and Gabon.

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Serge Muller
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Marc Jeanson
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Marc Pignal
RoleCorrespondant
Emailnone
  • 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
dwc_datasetid_added  i3378751
60.261
dwc_kingdom_added  i3378751
60.261
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3378751
60.261
dwc_taxonid_added  i3378751
60.261
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3378751
60.261
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3378751
60.261
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3378751
60.261
gbif_genericname_added  i3378751
60.261
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3378751
60.261
dwc_phylum_added  i3378743
60.261
dwc_class_added  i3378722
60.26
dwc_order_added  i3376410
60.219
taxon_match_failed  i3167881
56.5
gbif_reference_added  i2525897
45.05
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2477855
44.193
dwc_multimedia_added  i2282843
40.715
dwc_specificepithet_added  i2251212
40.151
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2137518
38.123
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i522487
9.319
dwc_continent_added  i521961
9.309
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i467519
8.338
geopoint_datum_missing  i386167
6.887
dwc_family_replaced  i356742
6.363
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i255716
4.561
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i170220
3.036
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i113796
2.03
geopoint_low_precision  i75805
1.352
dwc_country_replaced  i53792
0.959
dwc_genus_replaced  i34645
0.618
rev_geocode_eez  i21288
0.38
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i15722
0.28
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i2866
0.051
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2036
0.036
rev_geocode_failure  i1018
0.018
rev_geocode_corrected  i576
0.01
dwc_family_added  i401
0.007
geopoint_0_coord  i333
0.006
geopoint_similar_coord  i327
0.006
datecollected_bounds  i291
0.005
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i270
0.005
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i213
0.004
geopoint_bounds  i131
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i86
0.002
geopoint_pre_flip  i72
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i45
0.001
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i33
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i21
0
rev_geocode_flip  i20
0
dwc_country_added  i9
0
rev_geocode_both_sign  i7
0
scientificname_added  i2
0
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