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The 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: 29 September 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
HUH-DwC-import-2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Rights Holder: Harvard University Herbaria
Cite this collection:
The Harvard University Herbaria. Occurrence dataset (ID: cac84b21-0beb-4db3-8876-f869bd0aa16e) accessed via the New Brunswick Museum Collections Portal, /portal, 2024-05-03).
Collection Statistics
  • 4,330 specimen records
  • 12 (0.28%) georeferenced
  • 3,914 (90%) with images (3,914 total images)
  • 3,659 (85%) identified to species
  • 219 families
  • 594 genera
  • 1,128 species
  • 1,129 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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