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University of South Florida Herbarium (USF)

Specimen Records: 238,062
Media Records: 238,178
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-25

The USF Herbarium was established as a research and teaching collection in 1958 by George R. Cooley, two years after the founding of the University of South Florida. The USF Herbarium is the second largest collection in Florida, the seventh largest in the southeastern United States, and ranks in the upper third of the world's herbaria in size. The herbarium contains approximately 280,000 specimens, consisting of about 260,000 specimens of vascular plants, 14,000 algae, 2,800 bryophytes, 1,300 lichens, and 300 macrofungi. The collection contains approximately 400 type specimens. The herbarium is richest in specimens from Florida (~40%), with additional holdings from North America north of Mexico (~35%), Latin America and the West Indies (~15%), and the Eastern Hemisphere (~10%). Specific groups well represented in the herbarium include Acanthaceae, Apocynaceae, Begoniaceae, Bromeliaceae, Fabaceae, Orchidaceae, and pteridophytes (ferns).

Contacts

Name Alan R. Franck
RoleCurator
Emailafranck@mail.usf.edu
Name Alan R. Franck
RoleCurator
Emailafranck@mail.usf.edu
Name Keith Bornhorst
RoleIT
Emailbornhorst@usf.edu
Name Bruce F. Hansen
RoleAssociated Research Staff
Emailhansen@usf.edu
Name Alan R. Franck
RoleCurator
Emailafranck@mail.usf.edu
  • Data Corrected
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  • 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  i236672
99.416
dwc_continent_added  i236438
99.318
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86.286
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86.286
dwc_taxonid_added  i205415
86.286
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i205415
86.286
gbif_canonicalname_added  i205415
86.286
gbif_genericname_added  i205415
86.286
gbif_taxon_corrected  i205415
86.286
dwc_class_added  i205353
86.26
dwc_order_added  i205353
86.26
dwc_phylum_replaced  i204464
85.887
dwc_country_replaced  i189849
79.748
gbif_vernacularname_added  i187721
78.854
gbif_reference_added  i172103
72.293
geopoint_datum_missing  i153382
64.429
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i152114
63.897
dwc_multimedia_added  i145418
61.084
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i124978
52.498
taxon_match_failed  i93876
39.433
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i53965
22.668
geopoint_low_precision  i33814
14.204
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i19988
8.396
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i19514
8.197
dwc_genus_replaced  i11483
4.824
rev_geocode_eez  i8473
3.559
dwc_family_replaced  i5921
2.487
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i3671
1.542
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i2623
1.102
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i1705
0.716
dwc_phylum_added  i889
0.373
rev_geocode_mismatch  i865
0.363
rev_geocode_corrected  i455
0.191
dwc_taxonrank_added  i408
0.171
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i398
0.167
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i261
0.11
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i206
0.087
rev_geocode_failure  i101
0.042
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i87
0.037
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i34
0.014
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i12
0.005
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0.004
rev_geocode_both_sign  i7
0.003
datecollected_bounds  i5
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i5
0.002
geopoint_0_coord  i4
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i3
0.001
dwc_country_added  i2
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i1
0
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