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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.

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William and Lynda Steere Herbarium; New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York   10458-5126
U.S.A.
718/ 817-8626
http://www.nybg.org/

Collection Statistics

  • 1,033,595 specimen records
  • 591,753 (57%) georeferenced
  • 1,001,135 (97%) with images (1,015,644 total images)
  • 1,006,822 (97%) identified to species
  • 343 families
  • 4,970 genera
  • 43,532 species
  • 54,133 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 30 January 2025
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: NYBG IPT harvest
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Aglaonema (4)
  • Alocasia (5)
  • Amorphophallus (10)
  • Anthurium (243)
  • Arisaema (282)
  • Arum (8)
  • Calla (22)
  • Colocasia (6)
  • Cryptocoryne (1)
  • Cyrtosperma (1)
  • Dieffenbachia (1)
  • Dracontium (1)
  • Epipremnum (3)
  • Lemna (454)
  • Lysichiton (21)
  • Monstera (33)
  • Nephthytis (1)
  • Orontium (46)
  • Peltandra (59)
  • Philodendron (60)
  • Pistia (59)
  • Pothos (1)
  • Remusatia (1)
  • Rhodospatha (2)
  • Schismatoglottis (1)
  • Scindapsus (2)
  • Spathicarpa (1)
  • Spathiphyllum (38)
  • Spirodela (82)
  • Symplocarpus (35)
  • Syngonium (29)
  • Wolffia (71)
  • Wolffiella (26)
  • Xanthosoma (22)
  • Zantedeschia (11)
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