Collection Profile for: 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).
Contacts:
Jonathan Kennedy, jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
HUH Requests, huh-requests@oeb.harvard.edu
Collection Statistics
1,105,348 specimen records
3,866 (0.35%) georeferenced
1,062,903 (96%) with media (1,062,903 total media) 1,074,272 (97%) identified to species 327 families 4,846 genera 42,351 species 50,882 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
4 February 2025
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Acokanthera (5 ) Allamanda (109 ) Allomarkgrafia (6 ) Allotoonia (27 ) Alstonia (14 ) Amphineurion (1 ) Amsonia (388 ) Anechites (7 ) Angadenia (80 ) Anodendron (1 ) Apocynum (2028 ) Asketanthera (10 ) Aspidosperma (31 ) Beaumontia (16 ) Belandra (1 ) Cameraria (27 ) Carissa (71 ) Catharanthus (93 ) Cerbera (5 ) Chonemorpha (2 ) Condylocarpon (2 ) Couma (2 ) Cryptolepis (2 ) Cryptostegia (5 ) Cufodontia (1 ) Cycladenia (31 ) Echites (125 ) Fernaldia (25 ) Forsteronia (108 ) Funtumia (15 ) Haplophyton (22 ) Himatanthus (1 ) Holarrhena (2 ) Kopsia (18 ) Lacmellea (15 ) Landolphia (4 ) Lanugia (1 ) Laubertia (8 ) Macoubea (2 ) Macrosiphonia (8 ) Malouetia (36 ) Mandevilla (280 ) Mascarenhasia (6 ) Mesechites (80 ) Morleya (1 ) Mortoniella (1 ) Neobracea (39 ) Nerium (81 ) Ochrosia (4 ) Odontadenia (37 ) Peltastes (9 ) Pentalinon (65 ) Periploca (10 ) Pinochia (13 ) Plumeria (244 ) Prestonia (65 ) Raphionacme (1 ) Rauvolfia (525 ) Rhabdadenia (122 ) Saba (1 ) Stemmadenia (178 ) Streptotrachelus (1 ) Tabernaemontana (523 ) Telosiphonia (4 ) Thenardia (2 ) Thevetia (2 ) Thyrsanthus (2 ) Trachelospermum (5 ) Urechites (2 ) Vinca (68 ) Zschokkea (1 )
