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Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Philecology Herbarium

Specimen Records: 772,449
Media Records: 598,939
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

The core of BRIT’s herbarium is the Lloyd H. Shinners Collection in Systematic Botany, begun at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 1944. The Botanical Research Institute of Texas was formed in 1987 to house the transfer of this collection, which moved to Fort Worth in 1991.  Areas of geographic concentration encompass Texas, the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia. The BRIT herbarium holdings are worldwide in scope, and represent most of the earth’s plant families.

Contacts

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Emailhbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
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Rolenone
Emailhbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailtrehman@brit.org
Name Tiana Rehman
RoleHerbarium Director
Emailtrehman@brit.org
Name Ashley Bales
RoleCollections Manager
Emailabales@fwbg.org
Name Tiana Rehman
RoleHerbarium Director
Emailtrehman@brit.org
Name Ashley Bales
RoleCollections Manager
Emailabales@fwbg.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
dwc_datasetid_added  i618303
80.045
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i618303
80.045
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i618303
80.045
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80.045
gbif_genericname_added  i618303
80.045
gbif_taxon_corrected  i618303
80.045
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i618265
80.04
dwc_phylum_replaced  i617157
79.896
dwc_class_added  i581108
75.229
gbif_vernacularname_added  i528844
68.463
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i452910
58.633
dwc_multimedia_added  i448434
58.054
dwc_continent_added  i412300
53.376
gbif_reference_added  i410289
53.115
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i356695
46.177
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i285694
36.985
taxon_match_failed  i257829
33.378
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i102206
13.231
geopoint_datum_missing  i65449
8.473
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i55454
7.179
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i48035
6.219
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i40966
5.303
dwc_genus_replaced  i28763
3.724
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i14419
1.867
geopoint_low_precision  i12418
1.608
dwc_family_replaced  i11249
1.456
dwc_genus_added  i6770
0.876
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i6520
0.844
rev_geocode_eez  i5371
0.695
dwc_country_replaced  i3129
0.405
dwc_order_replaced  i2774
0.359
geopoint_datum_error  i2433
0.315
dwc_class_replaced  i1395
0.181
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1259
0.163
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i807
0.104
rev_geocode_corrected  i712
0.092
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i492
0.064
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i349
0.045
dwc_family_added  i347
0.045
dwc_taxonremarks_replaced  i280
0.036
rev_geocode_failure  i196
0.025
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i142
0.018
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i95
0.012
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i78
0.01
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i51
0.007
datecollected_bounds  i49
0.006
dwc_taxonid_added  i38
0.005
dwc_taxonrank_added  i38
0.005
dwc_specificepithet_added  i31
0.004
dwc_order_added  i28
0.004
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i28
0.004
dwc_kingdom_added  i27
0.003
dwc_phylum_added  i27
0.003
rev_geocode_both_sign  i19
0.002
dwc_continent_replaced  i1
0
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i1
0
geopoint_pre_flip  i1
0
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0