Harvard University

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  • Name

    Harvard University

  • Herbarium Code

    GH

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Contact

    [1] 617 495 2365 (A, ECON, GH)
    [1] 617 495 2360 (AMES)
    [1] 617 495 2368 (FH)
    Fax: [1] 617 495 9484
    Email: mschmull@oeb.harvard.edu
    Email: mschmull@oeb.harvard.edu (visitors)
    Email: huh-requests@oeb.harvard.edu (other specimen-based requests)

  • Address

    Herbaria
    Harvard University
    22 Divinity Avenue
    Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-2020
    U.S.A.
    http://www.huh.harvard.edu
    http://www.ipni.org/ (IPNI)

  • CITES

    US 004

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants with emphasis on the New World; worldwide collection of non-vascular cryptogams, especially original reference herbaria of authors of names and undistributed exsiccatae; Orchidaceae; plants useful or harmful to man; cultivated plants; wild plants involved in origin of cultivated plants

    Geography: Worldwide; North America including West Indies and Mexico; eastern and southeastern Asia and Malesia; Philippines

  • Notes

    Updated Nov 2016 (Notes update). GH is fully integrated with A and AMES in the Harvard University Herbaria, but specimens from Gray Herbarium should be cited as GH. The 1 943 000 specimens in GH are included in the total given for the Harvard University Herbaria (listed under GH). The previously separate Harvard herbaria (A, AMES, ECON, FH, GH) were fully integrated in the 1980s and are now administered as a single unit. Although loans of vascular plants from the Harvard University Herbaria will include appropriate specimens from A, AMES, ECON, and GH, and also material from the New England Botanical Club Herbarium (NEBC), specimens cited in publications should use the standard abbreviations for each of those herbaria. Correspondence regarding specimens should not be sent to the separate institutions, but to huh-requests@oeb.harvard.edu. Work space can be provided for both long- and short-term visitors; written requests, especially for long-term visitors, should be sent to Michaela Schmull (mschmull@oeb.harvard.edu). Also available for study are 50 000 paleobotanical specimens, 33 000 specimens of wood, 38 000 microscope slides of wood, 15 000 slides of other plant parts in the Bailey-Wetmore Wood Collection (Aw), and 11 000 pollen slides.

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  • Number of Specimens

    5005000

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae
    Bryophytes
    Fungi/Lichens
    Pteridophytes
    Seed Plants
  • Updated

    24/02/2020

  • Associated Institution

    Associated garden: Arnold Arboretum, The Arborway, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130; William (Ned) Friedman, Director; telephone: [1] 617.384.7744; fax: [1] 617.384.6596.

  • Incorporated Herbaria

    Boston Society of Natural History diatoms in FH, vascular plants in GH in 1941;
    NEBC (251 850 specimens) in 1992 (but see separate entry for NEBC).;
    non-Worcester County material of CUW in GH in 1985;
    WELC South American collections in GH in 1985

  • Important Collectors

    J. G. Agardh, O. Ames, M. Anzi, J. W. Bailey, L. H. Bailey, I. W. Bailey, C. F. Baker, J. R. Bartholomew, E. Bartholomew, E. B. Bartram, M. J. Berkeley, J. L. Berlandier, J. M. Bigelow, M. A. A. Booth, J. B. E. Bornet, M. Botteri, L. J. Brass, L. A. de Brebisson, W. H. Brewer, A. H. Brinkman, W. E. Broadway, F. V. Bucholz, W. J. Burchell, E. A. Burt, B. F. Bush, W. M. Canby, C. E. Carr, S. Y. Chao, A. W. Chapman, C. A. Cheever, L. F. Cheo, C. Y. Chiao, R. C. Ching, M. Clemens, J. Clemens, I. W. Clokey, J. F. Collins, F. S. Collins, R. Combs, D. S. Correll, M. A. Curtis, A. H. Curtiss, W. C. Cusick, D. Demaree, F. G. Dickason, T. Drummond, J. Drummond, A. Eastwood, C. F. Ecklon, A. M. Edwards, H. F. A. von Eggers, E. L. Ekman, J. B. Ellis, A. D. E. Elmer, W. J. Eyerdam, W. P. Fang, W. G. Farlow, J. H. Faull, U. J. Faurie, C. E. Faxon, A. Fendler, C. C. Feng, K. M. Feng, M. L. Fernald, J. Fernandes, R. Ferreyra, B. Fink, M. Fleischer, F. F. Forbes, G. Forrest, I. Franc, J. C. Frémont, E. M. Fries, M. Furuse, H. G. Galeotti, G. Gardner, L. N. Goodding, C. M. Gottsche, A. Gray, R. C. Greenleaf, R. K. Greville, F. Habirshaw, H. Handel-Mazzetti, W. Harris, C. V. Hartman, W. H. Harvey, H. E. Hasse, E. Hassler, S. Hatusima, F. Hauck, C. C. Haynes, A. A. Heller, A. Henry, H. W. Henshaw, P. Hepp, J. Hers, W. Hillebrand, G. B. Hinton, W. H. Hodge, F. X. R. von Höhnel, J. D. Hooker, T. Hosakawa, R. A. Howard, R. H. Howe, Jr., T. J. Howell, H. H. Hu, J. G. Jack, T. P. James, I. M. Johnston, M. E. Jones, S. F. Kajewski, Y. L. Keng, E. P. Killip, F. Kingdon-Ward, C. C. Kingman, F. W. Klatt, P. Klausen, V. L. Komarov, F. W. L. Kraenzlin, I. M. Lamb, A. B. Langlois, S. K. Lau, A. F. Le Jolis, J. G. Lemmon, S.-R. Lenormand, F. W. Lewis, D. H. Linder, F. J. Lindheimer, J. Lindley, J. Macoun, B. Maguire, G. Mandon, P. Mangelsdorf, A. Mann, G. Mann, E. Matuda, C. J. I. Maximowicz, F. A. McClure, G. K. Merrill, E. D. Merrill, J. D. Moller, F. J. H. von Mueller, C. H. Muller, J. K. A. F. W. Müller, P. A. Munz, A. Nelson, T. Nuttall, K. E. M. Oestlund, E. J. Palmer, E. Palmer, S. B. Parish, C. C. Parry, N. T. Patouillard, E. B. Payson, C. L. Peticolas, J. B. L. Pierre, C. G. Pringle, G. R. Proctor, C. A. Purpus, E. Quisumbing, H. M. Raup, A. Rehder, H. G. L. Reichenbach, J. Rick, L. W. Riddle, H. N. Ridley, C. C. Robbins, B. L. Robinson, J. F. C. Rock, R. A. Rolfe, R. C. Rollins, J. N. Rose, H. H. Rusby, C. S. Sargent, C. Sbarbaro, J. G. Schaffner, V. F. Schiffner, G. H. W. Schimper, F. R. R. Schlechter, C. K. Schneider, R. E. Schultes, C. Schweinfurth, J. Scouler, A. B. Seymour, J. A. Shulze, P. E. E. Sintenis, B. V. Skvortzov, J. J. Smith, A. C. Smith, H. L. Smith, L. B. Smith, C. J. Sprague, H. St. John, F. Stephani, A. N. Steward, W. N. Suksdorf, W. S. Sullivant, Y. W. Taam, T. Taquet, T. Taylor, J. A. Tempère, W. A. Terry, R. Thaxter, F. Theissen, J. W. Thompson, T. Thomson, G. Thurber, G. H. K. Thwaites, R. B. Tolles, A. F. Tryon, R. M. Tryon, H. T. Tsai, W. T. Tsang, Y. Tsiang, K. K. Tsoong, E. Tuckerman, F. Tweedy, F. Verdoorn, N. Wallich, F. T. Wang, C. Wang, C. W. Wang, S. Watson, C. A. Weatherby, C. T. White, W. L. White, L. O. Williams, E. H. Wilson, C. Wright, T. T. Yu