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
  • Acosmium (1)
  • Adesmia (17)
  • Aeschynomene (17)
  • Alexa (1)
  • Amicia (1)
  • Andira (4)
  • Arachis (18)
  • Astragalus (33)
  • Ateleia (10)
  • Behaimia (1)
  • Belairia (1)
  • Bembicidium (1)
  • Benthamantha (1)
  • Bowdichia (1)
  • Bradburya (1)
  • Brongniartia (1)
  • Camptosema (6)
  • Canavalia (20)
  • Centrolobium (5)
  • Centrosema (3)
  • Chaetocalyx (5)
  • Clitoria (13)
  • Cologania (2)
  • Coumarouna (2)
  • Coursetia (5)
  • Cracca (4)
  • Cratylia (2)
  • Crotalaria (7)
  • Cymbosema (2)
  • Dalbergia (7)
  • Dalea (6)
  • Derris (2)
  • Desmodium (4)
  • Dicymbe (2)
  • Dioclea (10)
  • Diplotropis (3)
  • Dipteryx (4)
  • Dolichopsis (1)
  • Dussia (2)
  • Eriosema (6)
  • Erythrina (11)
  • Etaballia (1)
  • Fiebrigiella (1)
  • Fissicalyx (1)
  • Galactia (8)
  • Gliricidia (1)
  • Hymenolobium (1)
  • Indigofera (3)
  • Leptolobium (1)
  • Lonchocarpus (36)
  • Luetzelburgia (4)
  • Lupinus (44)
  • Machaerium (28)
  • Macrolobium (19)
  • Meibomia (3)
  • Monopteryx (1)
  • Mora (1)
  • Mucuna (7)
  • Ormosia (16)
  • Ormosiopsis (1)
  • Otholobium (2)
  • Pachecoa (1)
  • Pachyrhizus (1)
  • Panurea (1)
  • Paramachaerium (2)
  • Parosela (4)
  • Periandra (1)
  • Phaca (1)
  • Phaseolus (7)
  • Platymiscium (11)
  • Psoralea (1)
  • Psorothamnus (1)
  • Pterocarpus (6)
  • Rhynchosia (6)
  • Sabinea (1)
  • Steinbachiella (1)
  • Stizolobium (3)
  • Stylosanthes (4)
  • Swartzia (69)
  • Sweetia (4)
  • Sweetiopsis (1)
  • Taralea (1)
  • Tephrosia (2)
  • Trifolium (1)
  • Vatairea (17)
  • Vataireopsis (4)
  • Vicia (9)
  • Vouacapoua (1)
  • Weberbauerella (1)
  • Zornia (3)