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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
  • Adenostegia (2)
  • Afzelia (5)
  • Agalinis (831)
  • Aureolaria (304)
  • Bartsia (17)
  • Boschniakia (1)
  • Brachystigma (3)
  • Buchnera (67)
  • Castilleja (7138)
  • Chloropyron (1)
  • Conopholis (8)
  • Cordylanthus (779)
  • Dasistoma (28)
  • Epifagus (19)
  • Eremitilla (1)
  • Escobedia (3)
  • Euchroma (2)
  • Euphrasia (68)
  • Gentrya (1)
  • Gerardia (31)
  • Lamourouxia (12)
  • Macranthera (2)
  • Melampyrum (161)
  • Myzorrhiza (1)
  • Odontites (8)
  • Ophiocephalus (1)
  • Orobanche (80)
  • Orthocarpus (567)
  • Otophylla (3)
  • Parentucellia (4)
  • Pedicularis (1970)
  • Phelypaea (2)
  • Rhinanthus (53)
  • Schwalbea (50)
  • Seymeria (36)
  • Thalesia (2)
  • Tomanthera (72)
  • Triphysaria (14)
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