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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.
Contact: Barbara Thiers, Herbarium Director (bthiers@nybg.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 July 2020
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
William and Lynda Steere Herbarium; New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York   10458-5126
Collection Statistics
  • 880,705 occurrence
  • 455,387 (52%) georeferenced
  • 841,266 (96%) with images
  • 849,391 (96%) identified to species
  • 337 families
  • 4,604 genera
  • 37,848 species
  • 47,162 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics