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
  • Allamanda (1)
  • Allomarkgrafia (2)
  • Ambelania (1)
  • Amblyanthera (1)
  • Anacampta (1)
  • Anisolobus (1)
  • Aspidosperma (20)
  • Bonafousia (2)
  • Condylocarpon (1)
  • Couma (3)
  • Cufodontia (1)
  • Echites (1)
  • Fernaldia (1)
  • Forsteronia (18)
  • Geissospermum (2)
  • Hancornia (1)
  • Lacmellea (2)
  • Landolphia (1)
  • Laseguea (1)
  • Macoubea (4)
  • Macrosiphonia (1)
  • Malouetia (10)
  • Mandevilla (11)
  • Mesechites (1)
  • Odontadenia (5)
  • Parahancornia (5)
  • Peltastes (1)
  • Plumeria (4)
  • Prestonia (12)
  • Rauvolfia (13)
  • Secondatia (1)
  • Stemmadenia (8)
  • Taberna (1)
  • Tabernaemontana (24)
  • Thevetia (1)
  • Thyrsanthus (1)
  • Vallesia (2)
  • Zschokkea (3)