New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium (NY)
With more than 7.8 million preserved specimens, the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium is the largest herbarium in the Western Hemisphere.
Interim Director: Nicole Tarnowsky, ntarnowsky@nybg.org
Homepage: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 March 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Address:
William and Lynda Steere Herbarium; New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York 10458-5126
U.S.A.
718/ 817-8626
Collection Statistics
- 1,014,069 specimen records
- 581,482 (57%) georeferenced
- 886,934 (87%) with images (900,811 total images)
- 988,003 (97%) identified to species
- 342 families
- 4,928 genera
- 43,015 species
- 53,517 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)