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Harvard University Herbaria (Harvard)

This dataset contains all digitized specimen records stewarded by the Harvard University Herbaria. 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). DarwinCore data follows the AppleCore guidance https://code.google.com/p/applecore/.

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 June 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Import from IPT
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Collection Statistics
  • 8,423 specimen records
  • 55 (0.65%) georeferenced
  • 7,161 (85%) identified to species
  • 232 families
  • 1,040 genera
  • 3,259 species
  • 3,260 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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Taxon Distribution
  • Amphimas (1)
  • Baphia (3)
  • Berlinia (43)
  • Bobgunnia (1)
  • Cicer (1)
  • Crotalaria (1)
  • Desmodium (3)
  • Dioclea (1)
  • Dolichos (4)
  • Eriosema (1)
  • Erythrina (1)
  • Glycine (1)
  • Haplormosia (1)
  • Indigofera (2)
  • Lens (1)
  • Lonchocarpus (15)
  • Macrolobium (20)
  • Millettia (5)
  • Pisum (1)
  • Priotropis (1)
  • Pterocarpus (2)
  • Stylosanthes (1)
  • Tetrapleura (5)
  • Vigna (2)
  • Xanthocercis (1)