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
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 11 May 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
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
  • Acokanthera (5)
  • Allamanda (109)
  • Allomarkgrafia (6)
  • Allotoonia (27)
  • Alstonia (14)
  • Amphineurion (1)
  • Amsonia (388)
  • Anechites (7)
  • Angadenia (80)
  • Anodendron (1)
  • Apocynum (2014)
  • Asketanthera (10)
  • Aspidosperma (31)
  • Beaumontia (16)
  • Belandra (1)
  • Cameraria (27)
  • Carissa (70)
  • Catharanthus (91)
  • Cerbera (5)
  • Chonemorpha (2)
  • Condylocarpon (2)
  • Couma (2)
  • Cufodontia (1)
  • Cycladenia (31)
  • Echites (123)
  • Fernaldia (25)
  • Forsteronia (108)
  • Funtumia (15)
  • Haplophyton (22)
  • Himatanthus (1)
  • Holarrhena (2)
  • Kopsia (18)
  • Lacmellea (15)
  • Landolphia (4)
  • Lanugia (1)
  • Laubertia (8)
  • Macoubea (2)
  • Macrosiphonia (8)
  • Malouetia (36)
  • Mandevilla (279)
  • Mascarenhasia (6)
  • Mesechites (80)
  • Morleya (1)
  • Mortoniella (1)
  • Neobracea (23)
  • Pinochia (13)
  • Plumeria (17)
  • Prestonia (8)
  • Rauvolfia (7)
  • Rhabdadenia (1)
  • Stemmadenia (10)
  • Streptotrachelus (1)
  • Tabernaemontana (13)
  • Telosiphonia (4)
  • Thenardia (2)
  • Thevetia (1)
  • Thyrsanthus (2)
  • Trachelospermum (2)
  • Urechites (3)
  • Vinca (68)
  • Zschokkea (1)