New York Botanical Garden (NY-Plantae)

The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden holds a collection of more than seven million preserved specimens. All plant groups–flowering plants, conifers, ferns, mosses, liverworts, and algae, as well as fungi and lichens --are represented in the Herbarium collection, which is particularly strong in New World specimens. Digitization of all groups is underway, with more than 3.5 million specimens barcoded and 2.5 million specimens imaged.

Contacts: Thiers, Barbara, bthiers@nybg.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 21 June 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The New York Botanical Garden
Collection Statistics
  • 23,580 specimen records
  • 8,771 (37%) georeferenced
  • 19,541 (83%) with images (22,353 total images)
  • 21,728 (92%) identified to species
  • 285 families
  • 1,450 genera
  • 5,059 species
  • 5,366 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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