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Harvard University Herbaria (HUH)

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).

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Harvard University Herbaria. Occurrence dataset (ID: 129f5c96-8634-4d08-aaca-3892556d3f53) accessed via the All Asia TCN Portal, allasiatcn.org, 2026-03-08).

Collection Statistics

  • 438,219 specimen records
  • 30,264 (7%) georeferenced
  • 364,625 (83%) with media (654,524 total media)
  • 226,059 (52%) identified to species
  • 369 families
  • 3,262 genera
  • 19,092 species
  • 19,092 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2026
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: HUH - Vascular Plants
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