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Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Philecology Herbarium

Specimen Records: 745,435
Media Records: 479,225
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

The core of BRIT’s herbarium is the Lloyd H. Shinners Collection in Systematic Botany, begun at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 1944. The Botanical Research Institute of Texas was formed in 1987 to house the transfer of this collection, which moved to Fort Worth in 1991.  Areas of geographic concentration encompass Texas, the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia. The BRIT herbarium holdings are worldwide in scope, and represent most of the earth’s plant families.

Contacts

Namenone
Rolenone
Emailhbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailhbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailtrehman@brit.org
Name Tiana Rehman
RoleHerbarium Director
Emailtrehman@brit.org
Name Ashley Bordelon
RoleCollections Manager
Emailabordelon@brit.org
Name Tiana Rehman
RoleHerbarium Director
Emailtrehman@brit.org
Name Ashley Bordelon
RoleCollections Manager
Emailabordelon@brit.org
  • Data Corrected
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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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80.996
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80.996
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80.996
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80.996
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80.996
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80.996
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80.987
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80.839
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76.246
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69.434
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58.894
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57.604
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53.605
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52.041
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46.48
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37.29
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33.935
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13.301
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7.827
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7.269
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6.268
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5.396
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3.785
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1.42
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0.928
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0.454
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0.367
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0.306
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0.185
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0.153
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0.102
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0.083
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0.066
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0.049
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0.044
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0.03
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0.021
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0.015
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0.007
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0.007
dwc_kingdom_added  i52
0.007
dwc_phylum_added  i52
0.007
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i51
0.007
datecollected_bounds  i44
0.006
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0.003
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0.003
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0.001
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0.001
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
dwc_continent_replaced  i1
0
dwc_country_added  i1
0
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i1
0
geopoint_pre_flip  i1
0
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