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).

Director of Biodiversity Informatics: Jonathan Kennedy, jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 September 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 307,182 specimen records
  • 29,637 (10%) georeferenced
  • 230,017 (75%) with images (230,017 total images)
  • 156,948 (51%) identified to species
  • 348 families
  • 2,889 genera
  • 16,143 species
  • 16,143 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics