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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
  • Abelmoschus (17)
  • Abutilon (432)
  • Alcea (28)
  • Allowissadula (34)
  • Althaea (25)
  • Anoda (92)
  • Bakeridesia (29)
  • Bastardia (16)
  • Batesimalva (1)
  • Beloere (1)
  • Billieturnera (6)
  • Callianthe (1)
  • Callirhoe (373)
  • Cienfuegosia (4)
  • Eremalche (43)
  • Gaya (4)
  • Gossypium (128)
  • Gynatrix (7)
  • Hampea (7)
  • Herissantia (57)
  • Hibiscus (888)
  • Horsfordia (14)
  • Iliamna (127)
  • Kitaibela (2)
  • Kosteletzkya (148)
  • Lavatera (15)
  • Malache (5)
  • Malachra (15)
  • Malacothamnus (177)
  • Malope (1)
  • Malva (726)
  • Malvastrum (204)
  • Malvaviscus (68)
  • Malvella (99)
  • Meximalva (13)
  • Modiola (82)
  • Napaea (34)
  • Pavonia (73)
  • Periptera (1)
  • Plagianthus (6)
  • Pseudabutilon (7)
  • Rhynchosida (42)
  • Robinsonella (8)
  • Saviniona (4)
  • Sida (662)
  • Sidalcea (697)
  • Sphaeralcea (1127)
  • Talipariti (18)
  • Thespesia (12)
  • Thurberia (2)
  • Urena (27)
  • Wissadula (18)