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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Herbarium Specimens

Specimen Records: 957,725
Media Records: 609,014
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2022-02-07

The Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew houses approximately seven million plant specimens, collected from all around the world. Specimens are either pressed and dried or preserved in spirit. Kew is committed to making this important collection more accessible to botanists and others, wherever they may be, for use in their own projects: particularly in biodiversity, conservation, sustainable development and systematics. To this end Kew is building an electronic Herbarium Catalogue containing images of the specimens and information taken from their collection labels. Specimens represented in Kew’s digital collections have been collected over a period spanning three centuries, with examples dating back to the beginning of the 18th century. These include over 300,000 putative type and historically important specimens collected by plant hunters, explorers and scientists of great renown including Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Nathaniel Wallich, to name just a few.

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Namenone
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Emailherbcat[at]kew.org
Name RBGK Herbarium Digital Collections Unit
Rolenone
Emailherbcat[at]kew.org
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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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i589124
61.513
dwc_continent_added  i562462
58.729
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28.712
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28.712
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28.712
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28.712
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28.712
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28.712
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28.712
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28.712
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28.709
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28.709
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28.698
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26.942
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26.942
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25.956
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23.183
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17.701
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12.388
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11.677
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11.469
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8.943
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6.471
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3.801
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3.191
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2.984
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1.938
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1.282
dwc_genus_replaced  i10486
1.095
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1.084
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0.475
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0.4
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0.342
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0.188
rev_geocode_corrected  i1351
0.141
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0.094
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0.086
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0.07
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0.038
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0.038
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0.031
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0.025
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0.023
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0.015
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0.008
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i70
0.007
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i46
0.005
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i15
0.002
rev_geocode_both_sign  i15
0.002
datecollected_bounds  i12
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i9
0.001
geopoint_pre_flip  i6
0.001
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i4
0
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i4
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i4
0
dwc_genus_added  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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