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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 2,048,583
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  i1989924
97.137
dwc_datasetid_added  i1731937
84.543
dwc_kingdom_added  i1731937
84.543
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1731937
84.543
dwc_taxonid_added  i1731937
84.543
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1731937
84.543
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1731937
84.543
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1731937
84.543
gbif_genericname_added  i1731937
84.543
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1731937
84.543
dwc_phylum_added  i1731770
84.535
dwc_class_added  i1731375
84.516
dwc_order_added  i1729844
84.441
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1582661
77.256
gbif_reference_added  i1418944
69.265
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1324554
64.657
dwc_country_replaced  i1146386
55.96
dwc_multimedia_added  i1125749
54.953
taxon_match_failed  i578444
28.236
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i410105
20.019
dwc_family_replaced  i195888
9.562
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i183276
8.946
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i142731
6.967
dwc_genus_replaced  i66288
3.236
geopoint_datum_error  i42497
2.074
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i39750
1.94
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i39290
1.918
dwc_family_added  i25363
1.238
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i18301
0.893
dwc_continent_replaced  i7374
0.36
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5234
0.255
dwc_country_added  i3058
0.149
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2835
0.138
rev_geocode_eez  i1292
0.063
dwc_genus_added  i1225
0.06
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i1035
0.051
rev_geocode_mismatch  i918
0.045
rev_geocode_corrected  i415
0.02
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i322
0.016
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
datecollected_bounds  i10
0
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
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