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
Actinocyclus (1 ) Agapetes (1 ) Agarista (28 ) Andromeda (679 ) Anthopteropsis (2 ) Arbutus (209 ) Arctostaphylos (2928 ) Arctous (421 ) Ardisia (4 ) Azalea (6 ) Befaria (2 ) Bejaria (71 ) Bryanthus (4 ) Calluna (96 ) Cassandra (1 ) Cassiope (507 ) Cavendishia (18 ) Ceratiola (117 ) Chamaedaphne (751 ) Chimaphila (948 ) Comarostaphylis (66 ) Corema (199 ) Cyanococcus (1 ) Daphnidostaphylis (1 ) Disterigma (1 ) Elliottia (77 ) Empetrum (838 ) Enkianthus (12 ) Epigaea (687 ) Erica (34 ) Eubotrys (425 ) Gaultheria (1180 ) Gaylussacia (1824 ) Gonocalyx (4 ) Harrimanella (204 ) Hemitomes (1 ) Hornemannia (1 ) Hypopitys (19 ) Kalmia (2199 ) Kalmiella (2 ) Kalmiopsis (6 ) Ledum (8 ) Leiophyllum (180 ) Leucothoe (295 ) Loiseleuria (259 ) Lyonia (1427 ) Macleania (4 ) Malea (1 ) Menziesia (359 ) Moneses (593 ) Monotropa (971 ) Monotropsis (20 ) Newberrya (2 ) Ornithostaphylos (5 ) Orthaea (2 ) Orthilia (914 ) Oxydendrum (267 ) Pernettya (4 ) Phyllodoce (651 ) Pieris (137 ) Pityopus (2 ) Pleuricospora (28 ) Psammisia (4 ) Pterospora (105 ) Pyrola (2974 ) Rhododendron (5441 ) Sarcodes (30 ) Satyria (5 ) Sophoclesia (1 ) Thibaudia (3 ) Tolmiea (43 ) Utleya (1 ) Vaccinium (3561 ) Xolisma (6 ) Xylococcus (52 ) Zenobia (63 )
