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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
  • Acanthogonum (4)
  • Aconogonon (124)
  • Antenoron (2)
  • Antigonon (9)
  • Atraphaxis (1)
  • Bistorta (633)
  • Brunnichia (59)
  • Campderia (1)
  • Centrostegia (67)
  • Cephalophilon (1)
  • Chorizanthe (501)
  • Coccoloba (39)
  • Dedeckera (11)
  • Delopyrum (2)
  • Dentoceras (2)
  • Emex (6)
  • Eriogonum (12435)
  • Fagopyrum (29)
  • Fallopia (220)
  • Gilmania (6)
  • Goodmania (8)
  • Hollisteria (6)
  • Homalocladium (2)
  • Johanneshowellia (32)
  • Koenigia (6)
  • Lastarriaea (1)
  • Mucronea (4)
  • Muehlenbeckia (4)
  • Nemacaulis (7)
  • Neomillspaughia (23)
  • Oxyria (444)
  • Oxytheca (205)
  • Persicaria (2559)
  • Podopterus (1)
  • Polygonella (177)
  • Polygonum (2129)
  • Pterostegia (51)
  • Reynoutria (57)
  • Rheum (25)
  • Rumex (3734)
  • Ruprechtia (4)
  • Stenogonum (124)
  • Thysanella (2)
  • Tovara (103)
  • Triplaris (6)
  • Truellum (127)
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