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Harvard University Herbaria: Vascular Plants of North America (Harvard)

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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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.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 February 2025
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: IPT Import (Vascular Plants North America)
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acorus (286)
  • Aglaonema (7)
  • Alocasia (11)
  • Amorphophallus (15)
  • Anthurium (522)
  • Arisaema (1138)
  • Arum (4)
  • Caladium (19)
  • Calla (352)
  • Chlorospatha (1)
  • Colocasia (26)
  • Dieffenbachia (19)
  • Dracontium (4)
  • Epipremnum (3)
  • Heteropsis (6)
  • Homalomena (2)
  • Lysichiton (1)
  • Monstera (171)
  • Montrichardia (22)
  • Orontium (185)
  • Peltandra (321)
  • Philodendron (268)
  • Pinellia (2)
  • Pistia (101)
  • Rhodospatha (9)
  • Sauromatum (3)
  • Spathiphyllum (88)
  • Stenospermation (16)
  • Symplocarpus (269)
  • Syngonium (168)
  • Urospatha (6)
  • Xanthosoma (86)
  • Zantedeschia (10)