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Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium

Specimen Records: 431,131
Media Records: 351,192
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-03-25

Records from the Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium (The National Herbarium of Canada), including algae (CANA), bryophytes (CANM), lichens (CANL) and vascular plants (CAN). NOTE that geographical co-ordinates in the records are in some cases transcribed from specimen labels, whereas in others they have been derived by CMN staff from secondary sources (georeferencing). No GBIF field is available to differentiate records of each type. If you require this information, please contact CMN staff.

Contacts

Name Jennifer Doubt
RoleCurator, Botany
Emailjdoubt@nature.ca
Name Rob Blades
RoleDigital Collections Information Manager
Emailrblades@nature.ca
Name Jennifer Doubt
RoleCurator, Botany
Emailjdoubt@nature.ca
Name Lyndsey Sharp
RoleCollection Technician
Emaillsharp@nature.ca
Name Paul Hamilton
RoleSenior Research Assistant - Phycology
Emailphamilton@nature.ca
Name Christopher Deduke
RoleAssistant Collections Manager
Emailcdeduke@nature.ca
Name Jennifer Doubt
RoleCurator, Botany
Emailjdoubt@nature.ca
Name Paul Hamilton
RoleSenior Research Assistant - Phycology
Emailphamilton@nature.ca
Name Christopher Deduke
RoleProject Technician - Lichens
Emailcdeduke@nature.ca
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  i428825
99.465
dwc_continent_added  i390745
90.633
dwc_datasetid_replaced  i334994
77.701
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i334994
77.701
dwc_taxonid_added  i334994
77.701
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i334994
77.701
gbif_canonicalname_added  i334994
77.701
gbif_genericname_added  i334994
77.701
gbif_taxon_corrected  i334994
77.701
gbif_vernacularname_added  i311189
72.18
gbif_reference_added  i284576
66.007
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i283624
65.786
dwc_multimedia_added  i263380
61.09
geopoint_datum_missing  i250788
58.17
dwc_specificepithet_added  i242292
56.199
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i242244
56.188
geopoint_low_precision  i159814
37.069
taxon_match_failed  i131848
30.582
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i73291
17
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i58134
13.484
rev_geocode_eez  i37847
8.779
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i33871
7.856
dwc_class_replaced  i25665
5.953
dwc_phylum_replaced  i20112
4.665
dwc_order_replaced  i18930
4.391
dwc_country_replaced  i14826
3.439
dwc_family_replaced  i12207
2.831
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i9572
2.22
dwc_genus_replaced  i6889
1.598
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4747
1.101
rev_geocode_mismatch  i4633
1.075
dwc_family_added  i4063
0.942
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i2796
0.649
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i972
0.225
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i263
0.061
dwc_order_added  i158
0.037
rev_geocode_corrected  i107
0.025
dwc_genus_added  i71
0.016
dwc_class_added  i67
0.016
rev_geocode_failure  i56
0.013
geopoint_datum_error  i51
0.012
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i46
0.011
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i42
0.01
datecollected_bounds  i35
0.008
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i21
0.005
geopoint_pre_flip  i18
0.004
rev_geocode_both_sign  i17
0.004
geopoint_similar_coord  i7
0.002
dwc_phylum_added  i6
0.001
geopoint_bounds  i2
0
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i1
0