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.
Contacts: Barbara Thiers, Herbarium Director, bthiers@nybg.org
Homepage: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 January 2021
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
Collection Statistics
- 922,069 specimen records
- 498,361 (54%) georeferenced
- 867,483 (94%) with images (880,797 total images)
- 889,740 (96%) identified to species
- 339 families
- 4,660 genera
- 39,002 species
- 48,538 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)