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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 2,023,891
Media Records: 1,831,631
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

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/.

Contacts

Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Michaela Schmull
RoleDirector of Collections
Emailmschmull@oeb.harvard.edu
Name Charles Davis
RoleCurator of Vascular Plant Collection; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Emailcdavis@oeb.harvard.edu
Name Jeannine Cavender-Bares
RoleDirector of the Harvard University Herbaria; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Emailnone
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i1966888
97.183
dwc_datasetid_added  i1711033
84.542
dwc_kingdom_added  i1711033
84.542
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1711033
84.542
dwc_taxonid_added  i1711033
84.542
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1711033
84.542
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1711033
84.542
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1711033
84.542
gbif_genericname_added  i1711033
84.542
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1711033
84.542
dwc_phylum_added  i1710866
84.534
dwc_class_added  i1710471
84.514
dwc_order_added  i1708941
84.438
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1564641
77.309
gbif_reference_added  i1401098
69.228
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1308106
64.633
dwc_country_replaced  i1145488
56.598
dwc_multimedia_added  i1111882
54.938
taxon_match_failed  i570206
28.174
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i406236
20.072
dwc_family_replaced  i188970
9.337
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i181208
8.953
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i140765
6.955
dwc_genus_replaced  i66133
3.268
geopoint_datum_error  i42338
2.092
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i38993
1.927
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i38557
1.905
dwc_family_added  i25335
1.252
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i17963
0.888
dwc_continent_replaced  i7310
0.361
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5211
0.257
dwc_country_added  i2994
0.148
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2823
0.139
rev_geocode_eez  i1288
0.064
dwc_genus_added  i1202
0.059
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i1025
0.051
rev_geocode_mismatch  i905
0.045
rev_geocode_corrected  i402
0.02
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i309
0.015
rev_geocode_failure  i105
0.005
dwc_specificepithet_added  i65
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i61
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i52
0.003
rev_geocode_flip  i15
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0
datecollected_bounds  i8
0
rev_geocode_both_sign  i5
0
geopoint_0_coord  i4
0
geopoint_similar_coord  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0