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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.

Interim Director: Nicole Tarnowsky, ntarnowsky@nybg.org
Homepage: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 March 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Address:
William and Lynda Steere Herbarium; New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York   10458-5126
U.S.A.
718/ 817-8626
Collection Statistics
  • 1,014,069 specimen records
  • 581,482 (57%) georeferenced
  • 886,934 (87%) with images (900,811 total images)
  • 988,003 (97%) identified to species
  • 342 families
  • 4,928 genera
  • 43,015 species
  • 53,517 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acianthera (8)
  • Acineta (5)
  • Aerides (1)
  • Anathallis (4)
  • Ancistrochilus (1)
  • Angraecum (4)
  • Anguloa (1)
  • Ansellia (1)
  • Aplectrum (81)
  • Arethusa (112)
  • Arpophyllum (6)
  • Artorima (5)
  • Arundina (1)
  • Aspasia (3)
  • Aulosepalum (5)
  • Barkeria (14)
  • Beloglottis (1)
  • Blephariglottis (4)
  • Bletia (103)
  • Bletilla (1)
  • Brassavola (22)
  • Brassia (28)
  • Broughtonia (6)
  • Bulbophyllum (22)
  • Calanthe (8)
  • Calopogon (489)
  • Calypso (197)
  • Campylocentrum (5)
  • Carteria (1)
  • Catasetum (18)
  • Cattleya (16)
  • Cephalanthera (29)
  • Ceratostylis (1)
  • Chondrorhyncha (1)
  • Christensonella (1)
  • Chysis (1)
  • Cladorhiza (1)
  • Cleistes (2)
  • Cleistesiopsis (57)
  • Clowesia (3)
  • Cochleanthes (2)
  • Cochlioda (1)
  • Coelia (3)
  • Coelogyne (37)
  • Cohniella (5)
  • Corallorhiza (1072)
  • Cranichis (18)
  • Cuitlauzina (1)
  • Cyclopogon (19)
  • Cycnoches (5)
  • Cymbidium (10)
  • Cypripedium (1189)
  • Cyrtopodium (17)
  • Dactylorhiza (201)
  • Deiregyne (5)
  • Dendrobium (30)
  • Dendrochilum (14)
  • Dendrophylax (7)
  • Diacrium (1)
  • Dichaea (15)
  • Dichromanthus (41)
  • Dinema (3)
  • Domingoa (1)
  • Doritis (2)
  • Elleanthus (12)
  • Eltroplectris (1)
  • Encyclia (149)
  • Epidendrum (42)
  • Epipactis (289)
  • Eria (16)
  • Eriopsis (1)
  • Erycina (6)
  • Erythrodes (3)
  • Eulophia (13)
  • Fissipes (1)
  • Galearis (153)
  • Galeoglossum (9)
  • Galeottiella (5)
  • Gomesa (15)
  • Gongora (12)
  • Goodyera (563)
  • Govenia (50)
  • Gracielanthus (1)
  • Guarianthe (10)
  • Gymnadenia (3)
  • Gyrostachys (10)
  • Habenaria (331)
  • Hexalectris (31)
  • Hexisea (2)
  • Hintonella (3)
  • Homalopetalum (1)
  • Hormidium (2)
  • Ibidium (2)
  • Ionopsis (7)
  • Isochilus (21)
  • Isotria (154)
  • Jacquiniella (7)
  • Jumellea (1)
  • Kionophyton (1)
  • Laelia (22)
  • Lanium (2)
  • Lemboglossum (15)
  • Leochilus (3)
  • Lepanthes (13)
  • Lepanthopsis (2)
  • Leptotes (2)
  • Leucorchis (3)
  • Limnorchis (13)
  • Limodorum (3)
  • Liparis (234)
  • Listera (3)
  • Listrostachys (1)
  • Lockhartia (13)
  • Lophiaris (5)
  • Ludisia (4)
  • Lycaste (14)
  • Macradenia (5)
  • Macroclinium (1)
  • Malaxis (257)
  • Mapinguari (2)
  • Masdevallia (8)
  • Maxillaria (88)
  • Meiracyllium (3)
  • Mesadenella (2)
  • Mesadenus (11)
  • Microchilus (1)
  • Microstylis (12)
  • Miltonia (9)
  • Mormodes (8)
  • Mormolyca (1)
  • Myoxanthus (1)
  • Myrmecophila (3)
  • Nageliella (2)
  • Neobenthamia (1)
  • Neottia (330)
  • Nidema (17)
  • Notylia (3)
  • Oberonia (1)
  • Odontoglossum (5)
  • Oeceoclades (2)
  • Oerstedella (1)
  • Oestlundia (4)
  • Oncidium (70)
  • Orchis (2)
  • Ornithidium (1)
  • Ornithocephalus (4)
  • Paphiopedilum (28)
  • Papilionanthe (3)
  • Pelexia (1)
  • Peristeria (1)
  • Pescatoria (2)
  • Phalaenopsis (5)
  • Pholidota (8)
  • Phragmipedium (3)
  • Physosiphon (7)
  • Piperia (6)
  • Platanthera (2691)
  • Platypus (1)
  • Platystele (3)
  • Platythelys (9)
  • Pleione (1)
  • Pleurothallis (22)
  • Pogonia (221)
  • Polystachya (27)
  • Ponera (14)
  • Ponthieva (26)
  • Prescottia (5)
  • Prosthechea (127)
  • Pseudorchis (6)
  • Pteroglossa (1)
  • Pteroglossaspis (13)
  • Restrepia (1)
  • Restrepiella (5)
  • Rhetinantha (2)
  • Rhyncholaelia (4)
  • Rhynchostele (5)
  • Rodriguezia (3)
  • Rossioglossum (8)
  • Sacoila (7)
  • Sarcanthus (2)
  • Sarcoglottis (6)
  • Scaphyglottis (13)
  • Schiedeella (10)
  • Schomburgkia (7)
  • Sobralia (21)
  • Spathoglottis (2)
  • Specklinia (8)
  • Spiranthes (1256)
  • Stanhopea (12)
  • Stelis (45)
  • Stenoglottis (2)
  • Stenorrhynchos (12)
  • Tainia (2)
  • Tipularia (52)
  • Tolumnia (16)
  • Trichocentrum (9)
  • Trichopilia (7)
  • Trigonidium (6)
  • Triphora (57)
  • Tropidia (4)
  • Vanda (12)
  • Vanilla (16)
  • Xylobium (12)
  • Zeuxine (5)
  • Zygostates (1)