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
  • Aspicarpa (25)
  • Banisteria (4)
  • Banisteriopsis (2)
  • Bunchosia (14)
  • Byrsonima (8)
  • Callaeum (2)
  • Coelostylis (3)
  • Cottsia (55)
  • Galphimia (49)
  • Gaudichaudia (7)
  • Heteropterys (4)
  • Hiptage (1)
  • Hiraea (10)
  • Janusia (1)
  • Lasiocarpus (1)
  • Malpighia (31)
  • Mascagnia (9)
  • Psychopterys (2)
  • Stigmaphyllon (1)
  • Tetrapterys (3)
  • Thryallis (6)