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

Specimen Records: 5,614,572
Media Records: 5,635,774
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

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  i3381993
60.236
dwc_kingdom_added  i3381993
60.236
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3381993
60.236
dwc_taxonid_added  i3381993
60.236
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3381993
60.236
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3381993
60.236
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3381993
60.236
gbif_genericname_added  i3381993
60.236
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3381993
60.236
dwc_phylum_added  i3381985
60.236
dwc_class_added  i3381963
60.235
dwc_order_added  i3379645
60.194
taxon_match_failed  i3169506
56.451
gbif_reference_added  i2527805
45.022
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2480253
44.175
dwc_multimedia_added  i2285182
40.701
dwc_specificepithet_added  i2252485
40.119
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2139326
38.103
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i529457
9.43
dwc_continent_added  i528930
9.421
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i467489
8.326
geopoint_datum_missing  i387764
6.906
dwc_family_replaced  i356637
6.352
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i255497
4.551
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i170157
3.031
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i113768
2.026
geopoint_low_precision  i76088
1.355
dwc_country_replaced  i55489
0.988
dwc_genus_replaced  i34698
0.618
rev_geocode_eez  i21381
0.381
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i15743
0.28
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i2871
0.051
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2043
0.036
rev_geocode_failure  i1023
0.018
rev_geocode_corrected  i577
0.01
dwc_family_added  i399
0.007
geopoint_0_coord  i333
0.006
geopoint_similar_coord  i327
0.006
datecollected_bounds  i276
0.005
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i270
0.005
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i214
0.004
geopoint_bounds  i132
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i86
0.002
geopoint_pre_flip  i71
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i45
0.001
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i34
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  i5
0
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