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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 1,986,327
Media Records: 1,749,479
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-11-25

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  i1930045
97.167
dwc_datasetid_added  i1682942
84.726
dwc_kingdom_added  i1682942
84.726
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1682942
84.726
dwc_taxonid_added  i1682942
84.726
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1682942
84.726
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1682942
84.726
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1682942
84.726
gbif_genericname_added  i1682942
84.726
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1682942
84.726
dwc_phylum_added  i1682775
84.718
dwc_class_added  i1682383
84.698
dwc_order_added  i1680855
84.621
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1540978
77.579
gbif_reference_added  i1376833
69.316
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1293763
65.133
dwc_country_replaced  i1142398
57.513
dwc_multimedia_added  i1099886
55.373
taxon_match_failed  i559145
28.15
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i399638
20.119
dwc_family_replaced  i182186
9.172
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i178241
8.973
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i138324
6.964
dwc_genus_replaced  i65589
3.302
geopoint_datum_error  i42081
2.119
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i38447
1.936
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i37518
1.889
dwc_family_added  i25296
1.274
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i17328
0.872
dwc_continent_replaced  i7178
0.361
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5188
0.261
dwc_country_added  i2941
0.148
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2812
0.142
rev_geocode_eez  i1275
0.064
dwc_genus_added  i1137
0.057
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i1023
0.052
rev_geocode_mismatch  i903
0.045
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
geopoint_0_coord  i4
0
geopoint_similar_coord  i4
0
datecollected_bounds  i2
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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