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Pennsylvania State University Herbarium

Specimen Records: 87,691
Media Records: 85,172
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

The Pennsylvania Agricultural College (PAC) Herbarium represents one of the oldest natural history collections at Penn State University. Established in 1859 with 3,000 specimens donated by Penn State’s first president Evan Pugh, the collection has since grown to over 100,000 items including mounted voucher specimens, seed vials and jars, and specimen jars which hold a portion of the algal collection.

Contacts

Namenone
Rolenone
EmailseinetAdmin@asu.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
EmailseinetAdmin@asu.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailcwd3@psu.edu
Name Claude dePamphilis
RoleDirector
Emailcwd3@psu.edu
Name Sarah Chamberlain
RoleCurator
Emailsjm20@psu.edu
Name Claude dePamphilis
RoleDirector
Emailcwd3@psu.edu
Name Sarah Chamberlain
RoleCurator
Emailsjm20@psu.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  i84622
96.5
dwc_continent_added  i84547
96.415
dwc_datasetid_added  i65880
75.127
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i65880
75.127
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i65880
75.127
gbif_canonicalname_added  i65880
75.127
gbif_genericname_added  i65880
75.127
gbif_taxon_corrected  i65880
75.127
dwc_phylum_replaced  i65866
75.111
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i65866
75.111
gbif_vernacularname_added  i63452
72.359
dwc_class_added  i61965
70.663
gbif_reference_added  i57170
65.195
dwc_multimedia_added  i55379
63.152
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i44747
51.028
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i42296
48.233
taxon_match_failed  i30576
34.868
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i12664
14.442
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i9424
10.747
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i8134
9.276
geopoint_datum_missing  i6058
6.908
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i3594
4.098
dwc_genus_replaced  i2570
2.931
dwc_country_replaced  i952
1.086
dwc_family_replaced  i575
0.656
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i366
0.417
rev_geocode_eez  i223
0.254
dwc_class_replaced  i206
0.235
geopoint_low_precision  i205
0.234
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i196
0.224
dwc_order_replaced  i118
0.135
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i101
0.115
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i87
0.099
datecollected_bounds  i84
0.096
geopoint_datum_error  i23
0.026
dwc_genus_added  i20
0.023
dwc_family_added  i14
0.016
dwc_kingdom_added  i14
0.016
dwc_order_added  i14
0.016
dwc_phylum_added  i14
0.016
dwc_taxonid_added  i14
0.016
dwc_taxonrank_added  i14
0.016
dwc_specificepithet_added  i13
0.015
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i10
0.011
rev_geocode_mismatch  i7
0.008
rev_geocode_corrected  i6
0.007
dwc_country_added  i3
0.003
rev_geocode_failure  i3
0.003
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i3
0.003
dwc_basisofrecord_invalid  i2
0.002
dwc_basisofrecord_removed  i2
0.002
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i2
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0.001
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