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Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Philecology Herbarium

Specimen Records: 744,942
Media Records: 479,247
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

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

Namenone
Rolenone
Emailhbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailhbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailtrehman@brit.org
Name Tiana Rehman
RoleHerbarium Director
Emailtrehman@brit.org
Name Ashley Bordelon
RoleCollections Manager
Emailabordelon@brit.org
Name Tiana Rehman
RoleHerbarium Director
Emailtrehman@brit.org
Name Ashley Bordelon
RoleCollections Manager
Emailabordelon@brit.org
  • Data Corrected
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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
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80.89
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80.89
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80.89
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80.89
gbif_genericname_added  i602585
80.89
gbif_taxon_corrected  i602585
80.89
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i602517
80.881
dwc_phylum_replaced  i601417
80.733
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76.139
gbif_vernacularname_added  i516563
69.343
dwc_multimedia_added  i438187
58.822
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57.423
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53.528
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51.853
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46.396
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i277242
37.217
taxon_match_failed  i252418
33.884
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13.28
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7.821
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i54020
7.252
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6.258
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5.394
dwc_genus_replaced  i28158
3.78
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1.878
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1.603
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1.418
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0.928
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0.854
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0.696
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0.375
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0.367
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0.306
dwc_class_replaced  i1378
0.185
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0.153
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i759
0.102
rev_geocode_corrected  i619
0.083
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i491
0.066
dwc_family_added  i363
0.049
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i329
0.044
dwc_taxonremarks_replaced  i223
0.03
rev_geocode_failure  i154
0.021
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i111
0.015
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i87
0.012
dwc_taxonid_added  i68
0.009
dwc_taxonrank_added  i68
0.009
dwc_order_added  i52
0.007
dwc_specificepithet_added  i52
0.007
dwc_kingdom_added  i51
0.007
dwc_phylum_added  i51
0.007
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i51
0.007
datecollected_bounds  i40
0.005
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i20
0.003
rev_geocode_both_sign  i19
0.003
geopoint_similar_coord  i7
0.001
geopoint_0_coord  i4
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
dwc_continent_replaced  i1
0
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i1
0
geopoint_pre_flip  i1
0
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