Recordset

Search Recordset

LA - University of California, Los Angeles Herbarium

Specimen Records: 78,061
Media Records: 70,230
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

The UCLA Herbarium (LA) was founded in ca. 1930, and contains approximately 150,000 specimens, almost entirely dried vascular plants. The herbarium contains collections of notable UCLA biologists such as A. M. Johnson, Carl C. Epling, Margaret and Harlan Lewis, Peter H. Raven, Martin L. Cody, Henry J. Thompson, Jonathan Sauer, Joseph Andorfer Ewan, Elizabeth McClintock, Mildred E. Mathias, Lawrence L. Kiefer, Barbara Joe Hoshizaki and Barry A. Prigge. The core of the collection contains specimens collected between 1920-1970 from North America (75%), South America (13%), Asia & the Pacific (10%), Europe (1%), and Africa (1%). The UCLA Herbarium also maintains a Santa Monica Mountains Collection and Los Angeles Basin (ca. 12,000 specimens), a Baja California Collection (ca. 4,000 specimens), a Type Collection (500 specimens), and a collection of cultivated plants from 1900-1960 West Los Angeles (ca. 8,000 specimens). Additional collection strengths include the Crassulaceae, Lamiaceae, Loasaceae, and Onagraceae clades.

Contacts

Namenone
Rolenone
Emailjyost@calpoly.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailjyost@calpoly.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailabaniaga@ucla.edu
Name Anthony Baniaga
RoleCurator
Emailabaniaga@ucla.edu
Name Anthony Baniaga
RoleCurator
Emailabaniaga@ucla.edu
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  i49216
63.048
dwc_datasetid_added  i41897
53.672
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i41897
53.672
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i41897
53.672
gbif_canonicalname_added  i41897
53.672
gbif_genericname_added  i41897
53.672
gbif_taxon_corrected  i41897
53.672
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i41893
53.667
gbif_vernacularname_added  i38428
49.228
dwc_multimedia_added  i32595
41.756
gbif_reference_added  i30199
38.686
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i29862
38.255
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i24078
30.845
taxon_match_failed  i18052
23.126
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i9274
11.88
geopoint_datum_error  i8613
11.034
geopoint_datum_missing  i7736
9.91
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i4230
5.419
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i3401
4.357
dwc_class_replaced  i3259
4.175
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i2625
3.363
geopoint_low_precision  i2593
3.322
rev_geocode_eez  i2081
2.666
dwc_country_replaced  i1697
2.174
dwc_family_replaced  i1558
1.996
dwc_genus_replaced  i1544
1.978
dwc_continent_added  i1403
1.797
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i1383
1.772
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i455
0.583
dwc_phylum_added  i276
0.354
dwc_order_replaced  i192
0.246
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i161
0.206
rev_geocode_mismatch  i98
0.126
dwc_continent_replaced  i88
0.113
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i62
0.079
rev_geocode_corrected  i31
0.04
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i29
0.037
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i25
0.032
rev_geocode_failure  i14
0.018
dwc_genus_added  i12
0.015
geopoint_similar_coord  i7
0.009
geopoint_0_coord  i6
0.008
dwc_kingdom_added  i4
0.005
dwc_taxonid_added  i4
0.005
dwc_taxonrank_added  i4
0.005
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i4
0.005
datecollected_bounds  i3
0.004
dwc_class_added  i3
0.004
dwc_country_added  i3
0.004
dwc_order_added  i3
0.004
dwc_specificepithet_added  i3
0.004
dwc_family_added  i2
0.003
geopoint_bounds  i2
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i2
0.003