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
  • Acer (5504)
  • Aesculus (765)
  • Alectryon (8)
  • Blighia (10)
  • Cardiospermum (137)
  • Cupania (8)
  • Cupaniopsis (1)
  • Dimocarpus (3)
  • Dipteronia (6)
  • Dodonaea (152)
  • Euphoria (2)
  • Exothea (42)
  • Filicium (1)
  • Harpullia (6)
  • Hippobromus (1)
  • Hypelate (13)
  • Koelreuteria (50)
  • Litchi (4)
  • Majidea (3)
  • Melicocca (2)
  • Melicoccus (8)
  • Negundo (4)
  • Nephelium (1)
  • Paullinia (37)
  • Rhodiola (1)
  • Sapindus (214)
  • Serjania (43)
  • Talisia (2)
  • Thouinia (7)
  • Ungnadia (104)
  • Urvillea (3)
  • Xanthoceras (7)