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
  • Abbevillea (1)
  • Acca (1)
  • Amomis (1)
  • Anamomis (4)
  • Aulomyrcia (16)
  • Backhousia (2)
  • Britoa (2)
  • Calycolpus (1)
  • Calycorectes (5)
  • Calyptranthes (54)
  • Campomanesia (7)
  • Eucalyptus (1)
  • Eugenia (171)
  • Eugeniopsis (1)
  • Gomidesia (3)
  • Krokia (2)
  • Marlierea (13)
  • Metrosideros (2)
  • Mitranthes (2)
  • Mitropsidium (1)
  • Mozartia (2)
  • Myrceugenia (3)
  • Myrcia (45)
  • Myrcianthes (9)
  • Myrciaria (10)
  • Myrtekmania (1)
  • Myrtus (7)
  • Nania (4)
  • Pimenta (3)
  • Plinia (4)
  • Pseudocaryophyllus (1)
  • Psidiopsis (1)
  • Psidium (21)
  • Rubachia (1)
  • Siphoneugena (2)
  • Stenocalyx (1)
  • Syzygium (4)