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Bolus Herbarium Specimens Collection (1865-2009)

Specimen Records: 44,879
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2018-01-23

Over 30 000 specimens of the plant families Fabaceae, Geraniaceae, Rosaceae, Aizoaceae, Rutaceae and Cyperaceae, predominantly from the CFR and Succulent Karoo areas. Collections from the Bolus Herbarium (University of Cape Town)

Contacts

Name Terry Tinder-Smith
RoleCurator
EmailTerry.Trinder-Smith@uct.ac.za
Name Fhatani Ranwashe
RoleData Technician
Emailf.ramwashe@sanbi.org.za
Name Terry Tinder-Smith
RoleCurator
EmailTerry.Trinder-Smith@uct.ac.za
Name Terry Tinder-Smith
RoleCurator
EmailTerry.Trinder-Smith@uct.ac.za
  • 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  i35435
78.957
geopoint_datum_missing  i35282
78.616
dwc_continent_added  i26762
59.631
dwc_datasetid_added  i20218
45.05
dwc_kingdom_added  i20218
45.05
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i20218
45.05
dwc_taxonid_added  i20218
45.05
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i20218
45.05
gbif_canonicalname_added  i20218
45.05
gbif_genericname_added  i20218
45.05
gbif_taxon_corrected  i20218
45.05
dwc_class_added  i20216
45.046
dwc_phylum_added  i20216
45.046
dwc_order_added  i20215
45.043
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i19975
44.509
gbif_reference_added  i14339
31.95
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i6320
14.082
gbif_vernacularname_added  i5745
12.801
taxon_match_failed  i5138
11.449
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i4965
11.063
dwc_multimedia_added  i4683
10.435
dwc_genus_added  i3864
8.61
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3862
8.605
dwc_specificepithet_added  i3787
8.438
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2780
6.194
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1072
2.389
rev_geocode_eez  i930
2.072
dwc_genus_replaced  i187
0.417
geopoint_low_precision  i141
0.314
rev_geocode_failure  i131
0.292
geopoint_similar_coord  i127
0.283
geopoint_0_coord  i122
0.272
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i112
0.25
rev_geocode_mismatch  i67
0.149
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i47
0.105
rev_geocode_corrected  i7
0.016
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i7
0.016
dwc_country_replaced  i6
0.013
dwc_family_replaced  i6
0.013
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