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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 1,962,251
Media Records: 1,728,813
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-09-22

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
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
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  i1906545
97.161
dwc_datasetid_added  i1662600
84.729
dwc_kingdom_added  i1662600
84.729
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1662600
84.729
dwc_taxonid_added  i1662600
84.729
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1662600
84.729
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1662600
84.729
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1662600
84.729
gbif_genericname_added  i1662600
84.729
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1662600
84.729
dwc_phylum_added  i1662433
84.721
dwc_class_added  i1662050
84.701
dwc_order_added  i1660523
84.623
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1524532
77.693
gbif_reference_added  i1360656
69.342
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1282452
65.356
dwc_country_replaced  i1139125
58.052
dwc_multimedia_added  i1087214
55.406
taxon_match_failed  i552304
28.146
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i395601
20.161
dwc_family_replaced  i181962
9.273
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i176150
8.977
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i137050
6.984
dwc_genus_replaced  i64808
3.303
geopoint_datum_error  i41073
2.093
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i37983
1.936
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i35776
1.823
dwc_family_added  i25890
1.319
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i17306
0.882
dwc_continent_replaced  i7103
0.362
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5185
0.264
dwc_country_added  i2877
0.147
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2801
0.143
rev_geocode_eez  i1258
0.064
dwc_genus_added  i1108
0.056
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i1021
0.052
rev_geocode_mismatch  i901
0.046
rev_geocode_corrected  i402
0.02
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i310
0.016
rev_geocode_failure  i105
0.005
dwc_specificepithet_added  i65
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i60
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i52
0.003
rev_geocode_flip  i15
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0.001
rev_geocode_both_sign  i5
0
datecollected_bounds  i4
0
geopoint_0_coord  i4
0
geopoint_similar_coord  i4
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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