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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 1,917,455
Media Records: 1,675,296
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

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
  • 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  i1864434
97.235
dwc_datasetid_added  i1624088
84.7
dwc_kingdom_added  i1624088
84.7
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1624088
84.7
dwc_taxonid_added  i1624088
84.7
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1624088
84.7
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1624088
84.7
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1624088
84.7
gbif_genericname_added  i1624088
84.7
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1624088
84.7
dwc_phylum_added  i1623921
84.691
dwc_class_added  i1623539
84.672
dwc_order_added  i1622015
84.592
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1489162
77.663
gbif_reference_added  i1328168
69.267
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1256490
65.529
dwc_country_replaced  i1135389
59.213
dwc_multimedia_added  i1063249
55.451
taxon_match_failed  i543771
28.359
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i385264
20.092
dwc_family_replaced  i180725
9.425
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i171871
8.963
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i134192
6.998
dwc_genus_replaced  i64427
3.36
geopoint_datum_error  i40278
2.101
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i36707
1.914
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i35257
1.839
dwc_family_added  i25696
1.34
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i17267
0.901
dwc_continent_replaced  i6477
0.338
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5123
0.267
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2779
0.145
dwc_country_added  i2380
0.124
rev_geocode_eez  i1237
0.065
dwc_genus_added  i1101
0.057
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i1016
0.053
rev_geocode_mismatch  i896
0.047
rev_geocode_corrected  i401
0.021
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i311
0.016
rev_geocode_failure  i103
0.005
dwc_specificepithet_added  i58
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i58
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i52
0.003
rev_geocode_flip  i15
0.001
datecollected_bounds  i10
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0.001
rev_geocode_both_sign  i5
0
geopoint_similar_coord  i4
0
geopoint_0_coord  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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