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University of South Florida Herbarium (USF)

Specimen Records: 240,829
Media Records: 240,920
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-09-22

The USF Herbarium was established as a research and teaching collection in 1958 by George R. Cooley, two years after the founding of the University of South Florida. The USF Herbarium is the second largest collection in Florida, the seventh largest in the southeastern United States, and ranks in the upper third of the world's herbaria in size. The herbarium contains approximately 280,000 specimens, consisting of about 260,000 specimens of vascular plants, 14,000 algae, 2,800 bryophytes, 1,300 lichens, and 300 macrofungi. The collection contains approximately 400 type specimens. The herbarium is richest in specimens from Florida (~40%), with additional holdings from North America north of Mexico (~35%), Latin America and the West Indies (~15%), and the Eastern Hemisphere (~10%). Specific groups well represented in the herbarium include Acanthaceae, Apocynaceae, Begoniaceae, Bromeliaceae, Fabaceae, Orchidaceae, and pteridophytes (ferns).

Contacts

Name Alan R. Franck
RoleCurator
Emailafranck@mail.usf.edu
Name Alan R. Franck
RoleCurator
Emailafranck@mail.usf.edu
Name Keith Bornhorst
RoleIT
Emailbornhorst@usf.edu
Name Bruce F. Hansen
RoleAssociated Research Staff
Emailhansen@usf.edu
Name Alan R. Franck
RoleCurator
Emailafranck@mail.usf.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • 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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i239436
99.422
dwc_continent_added  i239201
99.324
dwc_datasetid_added  i206885
85.905
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85.905
dwc_taxonid_added  i206885
85.905
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i206885
85.905
gbif_canonicalname_added  i206885
85.905
gbif_genericname_added  i206885
85.905
gbif_taxon_corrected  i206885
85.905
dwc_class_added  i206823
85.88
dwc_order_added  i206823
85.88
dwc_phylum_replaced  i205916
85.503
dwc_country_replaced  i192408
79.894
gbif_vernacularname_added  i189053
78.501
gbif_reference_added  i173074
71.866
geopoint_datum_missing  i154444
64.13
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i153211
63.618
dwc_multimedia_added  i146342
60.766
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i125577
52.144
taxon_match_failed  i94696
39.321
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i54500
22.63
geopoint_low_precision  i33892
14.073
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i20026
8.315
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i19654
8.161
dwc_genus_replaced  i11495
4.773
rev_geocode_eez  i8525
3.54
dwc_family_replaced  i5988
2.486
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i3745
1.555
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i2628
1.091
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i1720
0.714
dwc_phylum_added  i907
0.377
rev_geocode_mismatch  i881
0.366
rev_geocode_corrected  i469
0.195
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i412
0.171
dwc_taxonrank_added  i407
0.169
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i263
0.109
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i206
0.086
rev_geocode_failure  i101
0.042
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i87
0.036
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i34
0.014
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i13
0.005
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0.004
rev_geocode_both_sign  i7
0.003
datecollected_bounds  i6
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i5
0.002
geopoint_0_coord  i4
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i3
0.001
dwc_country_added  i2
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i1
0
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