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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
  • Bolelia (1)
  • Calcaratolobelia (1)
  • Campanula (739)
  • Campanulastrum (12)
  • Campylocera (2)
  • Centropogon (3)
  • Clintonia (1)
  • Diastatea (3)
  • Downingia (284)
  • Gadellia (1)
  • Githopsis (15)
  • Heterocodon (45)
  • Heterotoma (4)
  • Howellia (21)
  • Isotoma (2)
  • Laurentia (5)
  • Lobelia (714)
  • Nemacladus (235)
  • Palmerella (7)
  • Parishella (3)
  • Platycodon (5)
  • Porterella (83)
  • Triodanis (336)
  • Wahlenbergia (7)
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