UH Herbarium

Founded in 1911, the University of Hawaii’s herbaria incorporates the Lyon Arboretum herbarium specimen collection, together with some of the leading researchers in the Pacific basin and collections continue to expand. For almost 100 years, the teaching collections held in the University of Hawai’i herbaria have been a focal point for teaching, training and education on the flora of Hawai’i and the Pacific.

The UH Herbarium collects, houses and maintains voucher specimens of plants that reflect the teaching, research and project efforts of faculty, staff and students at UH Manoa. There are two primary collections – the University teaching and research collection (HAW) and the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum collection (HLA). More than 42,000 voucher specimens from are held in the herbarium. The HLA collection includes more than 8000 specimens of plants cultivated at Lyon Arboretum.