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Howard University Herbarium

Specimen Records: 8,789
Media Records: 8,701
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-07-12

The Howard University Herbarium (HUDC) is a collection of ca. 12,000 plant specimens housed in Just Hall on Howard University’s main campus. The collection includes a donation from the former Catholic University herbarium, with >1000 specimens from the Caribbean collected between 1890-1920. Other collection strengths include plants of the Mid-Atlantic, especially the DC metropolitan area. Charles Parker, Marie Clark Taylor and H. David Hammond also made substantial contributions the Howard University Herbarium.

Contacts

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Emailhbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailhbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
Namenone
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Emailjanelle.burke@howard.edu
Name Janelle Burke, Ph.D.
Rolenone
Emailjanelle.burke@howard.edu
Name Janelle Burke, Ph.D.
Rolenone
Emailjanelle.burke@howard.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  i8571
97.52
dwc_continent_added  i8438
96.006
dwc_datasetid_added  i7309
83.161
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i7309
83.161
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i7309
83.161
gbif_canonicalname_added  i7309
83.161
gbif_genericname_added  i7309
83.161
gbif_taxon_corrected  i7309
83.161
dwc_phylum_replaced  i7308
83.149
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i7308
83.149
gbif_vernacularname_added  i6834
77.756
dwc_class_added  i6404
72.864
dwc_multimedia_added  i6087
69.257
gbif_reference_added  i6024
68.54
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i4283
48.731
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i4099
46.638
taxon_match_failed  i3366
38.298
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1997
22.722
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1402
15.952
geopoint_datum_missing  i1122
12.766
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i1100
12.516
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i874
9.944
dwc_genus_replaced  i583
6.633
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i525
5.973
rev_geocode_eez  i154
1.752
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i151
1.718
dwc_country_replaced  i120
1.365
dwc_family_replaced  i78
0.887
dwc_genus_added  i39
0.444
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i35
0.398
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i33
0.375
dwc_class_replaced  i22
0.25
dwc_order_replaced  i11
0.125
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i10
0.114
geopoint_low_precision  i3
0.034
dwc_taxonremarks_replaced  i2
0.023
datecollected_bounds  i1
0.011
dwc_country_added  i1
0.011
dwc_family_added  i1
0.011
dwc_kingdom_added  i1
0.011
dwc_order_added  i1
0.011
dwc_phylum_added  i1
0.011
dwc_taxonid_added  i1
0.011
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1
0.011
geopoint_0_coord  i1
0.011
geopoint_datum_error  i1
0.011
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1
0.011
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