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
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
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
  • Amphiscirpus (28)
  • Baumea (1)
  • Blysmus (4)
  • Bolboschoenus (319)
  • Bulbostylis (130)
  • Calliscirpus (1)
  • Carex (54439)
  • Ceratoschoenus (14)
  • Chaetocyperus (3)
  • Chlorocyperus (3)
  • Cladium (168)
  • Cyperus (4712)
  • Deweya (1)
  • Dichromena (12)
  • Dulichium (165)
  • Eleocharis (3221)
  • Eriophorum (518)
  • Ficinia (1)
  • Fimbristylis (606)
  • Fuirena (262)
  • Hemicarpha (22)
  • Holoschoenus (2)
  • Hypoporum (3)
  • Isolepis (65)
  • Kobresia (9)
  • Kyllinga (7)
  • Lipocarpha (1)
  • Mariscus (5)
  • Oncostylis (1)
  • Oreobolopsis (1)
  • Psilocarya (24)
  • Pycreus (7)
  • Remirea (7)
  • Rhynchospora (1779)
  • Schoenoplectiella (173)
  • Schoenoplectus (1156)
  • Schoenus (15)
  • Scirpus (1432)
  • Scleria (447)
  • Stenophyllus (2)
  • Trichophorum (105)