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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).

Director of Biodiversity Informatics: Jonathan Kennedy, jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Homepage: https://huh.harvard.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 December 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
  • 215,014 specimen records
  • 29,083 (14%) georeferenced
  • 135,270 (63%) with images (135,270 total images)
  • 33,899 (16%) identified to species
  • 338 families
  • 963 genera
  • 2,131 species
  • 2,131 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics