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
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 March 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
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
  • Acrostichum (116)
  • Adiantopsis (17)
  • Adiantum (1853)
  • Aleuritopteris (57)
  • Ananthacorus (12)
  • Anetium (2)
  • Anogramma (30)
  • Anopteris (12)
  • Antrophyum (3)
  • Argyrochosma (249)
  • Aspidotis (136)
  • Astrolepis (404)
  • Bommeria (133)
  • Ceratopteris (40)
  • Cheilanthes (313)
  • Cheiloplecton (53)
  • Coniogramme (5)
  • Cryptogramma (560)
  • Doryopteris (7)
  • Eriosorus (19)
  • Gaga (318)
  • Gastoniella (3)
  • Gymnogramma (4)
  • Hecistopteris (2)
  • Hemionitis (46)
  • Jamesonia (4)
  • Litobrochia (1)
  • Llavea (35)
  • Mildella (69)
  • Myriopteris (2292)
  • Notholaena (440)
  • Onychium (3)
  • Paragymnopteris (1)
  • Pellaea (1546)
  • Pentagramma (241)
  • Pityrogramma (165)
  • Polytaenium (22)
  • Pomatophytum (1)
  • Psilogramme (1)
  • Pteris (506)
  • Pycnodoria (1)
  • Radiovittaria (1)
  • Scoliosorus (24)
  • Trismeria (2)
  • Vittaria (234)