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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 1,995,072
Media Records: 1,760,925
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-01-23

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  i1938622
97.171
dwc_datasetid_added  i1689054
84.661
dwc_kingdom_added  i1689054
84.661
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1689054
84.661
dwc_taxonid_added  i1689054
84.661
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1689054
84.661
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1689054
84.661
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1689054
84.661
gbif_genericname_added  i1689054
84.661
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1689054
84.661
dwc_phylum_added  i1688887
84.653
dwc_class_added  i1688495
84.633
dwc_order_added  i1686967
84.557
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1546379
77.51
gbif_reference_added  i1382371
69.289
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1296651
64.993
dwc_country_replaced  i1143514
57.317
dwc_multimedia_added  i1102371
55.255
taxon_match_failed  i561390
28.139
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i401258
20.112
dwc_family_replaced  i182938
9.169
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i178717
8.958
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i138618
6.948
dwc_genus_replaced  i65704
3.293
geopoint_datum_error  i42188
2.115
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i38516
1.931
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i37850
1.897
dwc_family_added  i25327
1.269
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i17407
0.872
dwc_continent_replaced  i7162
0.359
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5188
0.26
dwc_country_added  i2942
0.147
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2813
0.141
rev_geocode_eez  i1280
0.064
dwc_genus_added  i1137
0.057
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i1023
0.051
rev_geocode_mismatch  i904
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
datecollected_bounds  i5
0
rev_geocode_both_sign  i5
0
geopoint_0_coord  i4
0
geopoint_similar_coord  i4
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0