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
  • Aglaonema (3)
  • Alocasia (5)
  • Amorphophallus (9)
  • Anthurium (140)
  • Arisaema (230)
  • Arum (8)
  • Calla (21)
  • Colocasia (5)
  • Cryptocoryne (1)
  • Cyrtosperma (1)
  • Dieffenbachia (1)
  • Dracontium (1)
  • Epipremnum (3)
  • Lemna (409)
  • Lysichiton (19)
  • Monstera (33)
  • Nephthytis (1)
  • Orontium (37)
  • Peltandra (50)
  • Philodendron (57)
  • Pistia (56)
  • Pothos (1)
  • Remusatia (1)
  • Rhodospatha (2)
  • Schismatoglottis (1)
  • Scindapsus (2)
  • Spathicarpa (1)
  • Spathiphyllum (22)
  • Spirodela (67)
  • Symplocarpus (32)
  • Syngonium (27)
  • Wolffia (63)
  • Wolffiella (20)
  • Xanthosoma (18)
  • Zantedeschia (8)