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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
  • Aerangis (1)
  • Ancistrochilus (4)
  • Angraecum (11)
  • Ansellia (7)
  • Auxopus (2)
  • Bonatea (3)
  • Brachycorythis (58)
  • Brownleea (1)
  • Bulbophyllum (104)
  • Calanthe (10)
  • Centrostigma (1)
  • Cheirostylis (2)
  • Cynorkis (28)
  • Cynosorchis (1)
  • Cyrtorchis (1)
  • Deroemera (1)
  • Diaphananthe (2)
  • Diceratostele (1)
  • Diplacorchis (4)
  • Disa (82)
  • Disperis (10)
  • Epidendrum (1)
  • Epipactis (8)
  • Epipogium (2)
  • Eulophia (163)
  • Genyorchis (2)
  • Graphorkis (5)
  • Gussonea (1)
  • Habenaria (215)
  • Herschelia (1)
  • Holothrix (7)
  • Liparis (29)
  • Lissochilus (32)
  • Malaxis (6)
  • Manniella (4)
  • Megaclinium (2)
  • Microstylis (1)
  • Mystacidium (1)
  • Neobenthamia (4)
  • Neobolusia (3)
  • Nervilia (14)
  • Oberonia (1)
  • Odontochilus (1)
  • Oeceoclades (3)
  • Orthochilus (2)
  • Peristylus (12)
  • Platanthera (1)
  • Platycoryne (14)
  • Polystachya (128)
  • Pseuderia (1)
  • Pteroglossaspis (6)
  • Pterygodium (1)
  • Rhipidoglossum (2)
  • Roeperocharis (11)
  • Satyrium (90)
  • Schizochilus (3)
  • Stolzia (8)
  • Tridactyle (1)
  • Vanilla (11)
  • Zeuxine (4)