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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: 19 August 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
  • 1,102,122 specimen records
  • 3,769 (0.34%) georeferenced
  • 1,059,363 (96%) with images (1,059,363 total images)
  • 1,071,123 (97%) identified to species
  • 327 families
  • 4,835 genera
  • 42,196 species
  • 50,696 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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