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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 1,952,658
Media Records: 1,711,051
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-08-21

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  i1897267
97.163
dwc_datasetid_added  i1654283
84.72
dwc_kingdom_added  i1654283
84.72
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1654283
84.72
dwc_taxonid_added  i1654283
84.72
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1654283
84.72
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1654283
84.72
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1654283
84.72
gbif_genericname_added  i1654283
84.72
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1654283
84.72
dwc_phylum_added  i1654116
84.711
dwc_class_added  i1653733
84.691
dwc_order_added  i1652206
84.613
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1517012
77.69
gbif_reference_added  i1353986
69.341
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1277514
65.424
dwc_country_replaced  i1138251
58.292
dwc_multimedia_added  i1082788
55.452
taxon_match_failed  i550481
28.191
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i392782
20.115
dwc_family_replaced  i181413
9.291
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i174912
8.958
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i136526
6.992
dwc_genus_replaced  i64620
3.309
geopoint_datum_error  i40803
2.09
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i37795
1.936
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i35681
1.827
dwc_family_added  i25890
1.326
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i17300
0.886
dwc_continent_replaced  i6957
0.356
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5161
0.264
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2801
0.143
dwc_country_added  i2540
0.13
rev_geocode_eez  i1248
0.064
dwc_genus_added  i1099
0.056
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i1021
0.052
rev_geocode_mismatch  i900
0.046
rev_geocode_corrected  i402
0.021
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i310
0.016
rev_geocode_failure  i104
0.005
dwc_specificepithet_added  i65
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i60
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i52
0.003
datecollected_bounds  i17
0.001
rev_geocode_flip  i15
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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