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RB - Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Herbarium Collection

Specimen Records: 824,025
Media Records: 794,581
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-04-18

Created over a century ago, the RB currently comprises ca. 750,000 mounted specimens, with a strong representation of Brazilian flora, mainly from the Atlantic and Amazon forests. Nearly 100% of these specimens have been entered into the database and imaged and, at present, about 17% have been geo-referenced. This data paper is focused exclusively on RB's exsiccatae collection of land plants and algae, which is currently increasing by about twenty to thirty thousand specimens per year thanks to fieldwork, exchange and donations. Since 2005, many national and international projects have been implemented, improving the quality and accessibility of the collection. The most important facilitating factor in this process was the creation of the institutional system for plants collection and management, named JABOT. Since the RB is continuously growing, the dataset is updated weekly on SiBBr and GBIF portals. The most represented environments are the Atlantic and Amazon forests, a biodiversity hotspot and the world's largest rain forest, respectively. The dataset described in this article contains the data and metadata of plants and algae specimens in the RB collection and the link to access the respective images. Currently, the RB data is publicly available online at several biodiversity portals, such as our institutional database JABOT, the Reflora Virtual Herbarium, the SiBBr and the GBIF portal. However, a description of the RB dataset as a whole is not available in the literature.

Contacts

Name Rafaela Forzza
RoleCurator
Emailrafaela@jbrj.gov.br
Name Luís Alexandre Silva
RoleCoordenador do Núcleo de Computação Científica e Geoprocessameno
Emailestevao@jbrj.gov.br
Name Eduardo Dalcin
Rolenone
Emailedalcin@jbrj.gov.br
Name Rafaela Forzza
RoleCurator
Emailrafaela@jbrj.gov.br
Name Rafaela Forzza
RoleCurator
Emailrafaela@jbrj.gov.br
  • Data Corrected
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  • 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_taxonrank_replaced  i808117
98.069
dwc_datasetid_added  i676930
82.149
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i676930
82.149
dwc_taxonid_added  i676930
82.149
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i676930
82.149
gbif_canonicalname_added  i676930
82.149
gbif_genericname_added  i676930
82.149
gbif_taxon_corrected  i676930
82.149
dwc_phylum_added  i676676
82.118
dwc_class_added  i676667
82.117
dwc_order_added  i676632
82.113
gbif_reference_added  i518632
62.939
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i438589
53.225
gbif_vernacularname_added  i394679
47.896
taxon_match_failed  i353848
42.941
dwc_multimedia_added  i310838
37.722
geopoint_datum_missing  i306935
37.248
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i166256
20.176
dwc_family_replaced  i94665
11.488
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i90640
11
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i70945
8.61
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i47291
5.739
dwc_genus_replaced  i24534
2.977
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i15858
1.924
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i15858
1.924
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i13907
1.688
dwc_continent_added  i13359
1.621
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i13359
1.621
rev_geocode_eez  i8711
1.057
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i6897
0.837
rev_geocode_failure  i3632
0.441
dwc_genus_added  i2738
0.332
dwc_country_replaced  i2127
0.258
geopoint_similar_coord  i503
0.061
geopoint_0_coord  i496
0.06
rev_geocode_mismatch  i448
0.054
rev_geocode_corrected  i246
0.03
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i191
0.023
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i177
0.021
dwc_family_added  i84
0.01
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i60
0.007
geopoint_bounds  i43
0.005
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i41
0.005
dwc_taxonrank_added  i31
0.004
geopoint_pre_flip  i26
0.003
dwc_specificepithet_added  i18
0.002
datecollected_bounds  i16
0.002
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i13
0.002
rev_geocode_both_sign  i11
0.001
scientificname_added  i9
0.001
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i1
0
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