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Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium

Specimen Records: 431,114
Media Records: 351,197
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

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  i428806
99.465
dwc_continent_added  i390727
90.632
dwc_datasetid_replaced  i334998
77.705
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i334998
77.705
dwc_taxonid_added  i334998
77.705
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i334998
77.705
gbif_canonicalname_added  i334998
77.705
gbif_genericname_added  i334998
77.705
gbif_taxon_corrected  i334998
77.705
gbif_vernacularname_added  i311175
72.179
gbif_reference_added  i284562
66.006
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i283626
65.789
dwc_multimedia_added  i263374
61.091
geopoint_datum_missing  i250771
58.168
dwc_specificepithet_added  i242298
56.203
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i242241
56.19
geopoint_low_precision  i159813
37.07
taxon_match_failed  i131840
30.581
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i73304
17.003
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i58136
13.485
rev_geocode_eez  i37844
8.778
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i33871
7.857
dwc_class_replaced  i25667
5.954
dwc_phylum_replaced  i20114
4.666
dwc_order_replaced  i18932
4.391
dwc_country_replaced  i14826
3.439
dwc_family_replaced  i12209
2.832
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i9572
2.22
dwc_genus_replaced  i6883
1.597
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4747
1.101
rev_geocode_mismatch  i4632
1.074
dwc_family_added  i4063
0.942
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i2798
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  i57
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