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Field Museum of Natural History (Botany) Seed Plant Collection

Specimen Records: 661,842
Media Records: 608,981
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

Strong representation of neotropical taxa is credited to the many floristic projects and collection-oriented research programs, an integral part of the department since its inception. Especially rich are holdings in the neotropical families Rubiaceae, Asteraceae, Palmae, Fabaceae, Piperaceae and Solanaceae, primarily due to the work of present or former staff botanists. The Central American material is overall one of the world's finest single collections with special strengths in Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica. The South American collections are important with special strengths in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. A good representation in North American taxa is found, especially for Missouri and Illinois, and unmarked types are commonly discovered in these holdings.

Contacts

Name Sharon Grant
RoleInformation Systems Director
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
Name Matt von Konrat
RoleHead of Botany Collections
Emailmvonkonrat@fieldmuseum.org
Name Sharon Grant
RoleInformation Systems Director
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
  • 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
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92.536
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85.513
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85.513
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85.513
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85.513
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85.513
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85.513
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85.474
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84.786
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84.299
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84.059
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71.487
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57.148
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39.363
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9.45
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7.029
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6.001
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1.414
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1.325
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1.138
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0.889
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0.3
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0.126
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0.017
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0.005
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0.001
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0
dwc_phylum_added  i1
0
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i1
0
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