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Harvard University Herbaria: Vascular Plants of North America (Harvard)

The Harvard University Herbaria, with over 5 million specimens, is the world’s largest University Herbaria. Included in the Herbaria are what were once six separate herbarium collections: * Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum (A) * Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames (ECON) * Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium (AMES) * Farlow Herbarium (FH) * Gray Herbarium (GH) * New England Botanical Club Herbarium (NEBC).
Contacts: Jonathan Kennedy, jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Contacts: HUH Requests, huh-requests@oeb.harvard.edu
Homepage: https://huh.harvard.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 11 May 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 1,029,015 specimen records
  • 3,559 (0.35%) georeferenced
  • 971,102 (94%) with images (1,830,101 total images)
  • 999,335 (97%) identified to species
  • 322 families
  • 4,697 genera
  • 40,688 species
  • 48,993 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Astronium (1)
  • Campnosperma (2)
  • Comocladia (12)
  • Cotinus (94)
  • Dodonaea (70)
  • Malosma (57)
  • Mangifera (7)
  • Mauria (1)
  • Metopium (48)
  • Mosquitoxylum (1)
  • Pistacia (13)
  • Pleiogynium (2)
  • Pseudosmodingium (3)
  • Rhus (3187)
  • Schinus (48)
  • Schmaltzia (3)
  • Searsia (1)
  • Spondias (11)
  • Styphonia (1)
  • Tapirira (4)
  • Terebinthus (6)
  • Toxicodendron (1282)