Harvard University Herbaria (Harvard)

The Harvard University Herbaria, with over 5 million specimens, is the world’s largest University Herbaria. Included in the Herbaria are six 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: Herbaria Contact, huh-requests@oeb.harvard.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 February 2020
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/addenda.html
Collection Statistics
  • 54,029 specimen records
  • 1,499 (3%) georeferenced
  • 30,545 (57%) with images (35,184 total images)
  • 30,375 (56%) identified to species
  • 537 families
  • 2,704 genera
  • 17,325 species
  • 17,489 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Amorimia (10)
  • Banisteria (14)
  • Banisteriopsis (14)
  • Brittonella (1)
  • Bunchosia (16)
  • Burdachia (1)
  • Byrsonima (12)
  • Callaeum (5)
  • Diacidia (3)
  • Diplopterys (2)
  • Gallardoa (2)
  • Glandonia (2)
  • Heladena (1)
  • Heteropterys (11)
  • Hiraea (16)
  • Malpighia (10)
  • Malpighiodes (1)
  • Mascagnia (44)
  • Niedenzuella (5)
  • Peixotoa (2)
  • Ptilochaeta (1)
  • Sipapoa (4)
  • Stigmaphyllon (17)
  • Tetrapterys (18)