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
  • Aechmea (4)
  • Araeococcus (1)
  • Billbergia (2)
  • Bromelia (2)
  • Caraguata (1)
  • Catopsis (22)
  • Fosterella (6)
  • Greigia (3)
  • Guzmania (9)
  • Hechtia (61)
  • Hohenbergia (10)
  • Lindmania (1)
  • Pitcairnia (31)
  • Thecophyllum (15)
  • Tillandsia (146)
  • Vriesea (12)