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
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.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acoelorrhaphe (4)
  • Acrocomia (21)
  • Actinorhytis (1)
  • Aiphanes (2)
  • Allagoptera (1)
  • Archontophoenix (4)
  • Areca (1)
  • Arenga (5)
  • Astrocaryum (4)
  • Attalea (12)
  • Bactris (26)
  • Bismarckia (1)
  • Brahea (251)
  • Butia (15)
  • Calamus (1)
  • Calyptrogyne (2)
  • Calyptronoma (1)
  • Caryota (15)
  • Chamaedorea (160)
  • Chamaerops (10)
  • Chambeyronia (1)
  • Coccothrinax (70)
  • Cocos (10)
  • Colpothrinax (1)
  • Copernicia (5)
  • Corypha (4)
  • Cryosophila (16)
  • Desmoncus (13)
  • Dictyosperma (5)
  • Dypsis (10)
  • Elaeis (1)
  • Gaussia (4)
  • Geonoma (12)
  • Gronophyllum (1)
  • Heterospathe (1)
  • Howeia (4)
  • Hydriastele (2)
  • Hyophorbe (6)
  • Hyphaene (3)
  • Inodes (1)
  • Jubaea (1)
  • Laccospadix (1)
  • Latania (6)
  • Leucothrinax (37)
  • Livistona (11)
  • Lytocaryum (1)
  • Manicaria (1)
  • Mauritia (2)
  • Metroxylon (2)
  • Nannorrhops (1)
  • Neonicholsonia (1)
  • Normanbya (1)
  • Nypa (3)
  • Opsiandra (1)
  • Orania (1)
  • Phoenicophorium (1)
  • Phoenix (22)
  • Phytelephas (1)
  • Pinanga (2)
  • Plectocomia (1)
  • Pritchardia (9)
  • Pseudophoenix (13)
  • Ptychosperma (7)
  • Ravenea (2)
  • Reinhardtia (22)
  • Rhapidophyllum (24)
  • Rhapis (10)
  • Rhopalostylis (2)
  • Roystonea (19)
  • Sabal (230)
  • Sargentia (1)
  • Satakentia (1)
  • Schippia (1)
  • Serenoa (181)
  • Syagrus (18)
  • Synechanthus (3)
  • Thrinax (44)
  • Trachycarpus (11)
  • Trithrinax (2)
  • Veitchia (2)
  • Washingtonia (28)
  • Wodyetia (1)
  • Zombia (2)