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
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
  • Adenocalymma (3)
  • Amphicome (1)
  • Amphilophium (6)
  • Amphitecna (20)
  • Anisostichus (1)
  • Arrabidaea (2)
  • Astianthus (1)
  • Bignonia (248)
  • Callichlamys (1)
  • Campsis (173)
  • Catalpa (145)
  • Chilopsis (227)
  • Chitalpa (2)
  • Crescentia (7)
  • Dolichandra (1)
  • Dolichandrone (4)
  • Fridericia (2)
  • Handroanthus (5)
  • Heterophragma (1)
  • Jacaranda (12)
  • Kigelia (6)
  • Macfadyena (1)
  • Markhamia (1)
  • Melloa (1)
  • Paragonia (1)
  • Parmentiera (3)
  • Pithecoctenium (2)
  • Podranea (1)
  • Pyrostegia (2)
  • Radermachera (2)
  • Spathodea (4)
  • Tabebuia (9)
  • Tecoma (91)
  • Tecomaria (15)