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: 7 August 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Address:
William and Lynda Steere Herbarium; New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York 10458-5126
U.S.A.
718/ 817-8626
Collection Statistics
- 1,033,247 specimen records
- 591,531 (57%) georeferenced
- 999,391 (97%) with images (1,013,738 total images)
- 1,006,527 (97%) identified to species
- 342 families
- 4,967 genera
- 43,493 species
- 54,085 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
