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Collection Profile for:
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 media (1,015,644 total media)
  • 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
  • Agave (373)
  • Androstephium (86)
  • Anthericum (75)
  • Arthropodium (1)
  • Asparagus (97)
  • Aspidistra (5)
  • Beaucarnea (12)
  • Beschorneria (2)
  • Bessera (1)
  • Bloomeria (9)
  • Bowiea (2)
  • Bravoa (1)
  • Brodiaea (129)
  • Camassia (283)
  • Chionodoxa (1)
  • Chlorogalum (33)
  • Chlorophytum (6)
  • Convallaria (54)
  • Cordyline (19)
  • Danae (1)
  • Dasylirion (111)
  • Dichelostemma (213)
  • Disporopsis (1)
  • Dracaena (40)
  • Echeandia (53)
  • Eremocrinum (8)
  • Eucomis (1)
  • Furcraea (15)
  • Hastingsia (28)
  • Hemiphylacus (3)
  • Hesperaloe (8)
  • Hesperocallis (23)
  • Hesperoyucca (1)
  • Hosta (26)
  • Hyacinthoides (16)
  • Hyacinthus (3)
  • Jaimehintonia (1)
  • Lachenalia (1)
  • Leucocrinum (163)
  • Liriope (10)
  • Lomandra (4)
  • Maianthemum (1103)
  • Manfreda (74)
  • Milla (3)
  • Muilla (33)
  • Muscari (28)
  • Nolina (212)
  • Ornithogalum (43)
  • Phalangium (1)
  • Polianthes (8)
  • Polygonatum (158)
  • Prochnyanthes (2)
  • Puschkinia (1)
  • Runyonia (1)
  • Ruscus (3)
  • Samuela (1)
  • Sansevieria (1)
  • Schoenolirion (13)
  • Scilla (11)
  • Semele (1)
  • Smilacina (2)
  • Triteleia (312)
  • Triteleiopsis (2)
  • Tupistra (1)
  • Vagnera (4)
  • Veltheimia (3)
  • Yucca (618)