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New York Botanical Garden (NY)

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 specimens from the Americas. Digitization of all groups is underway, with more than 4.6 million specimens barcoded and 3.8 million specimens imaged.

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Cite this collection:
New York Botanical Garden. Occurrence dataset (ID: 4c66206d-e3db-4efe-85a2-160e3bb1c13d) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, pteridoportal.org/portal, 2024-12-06).

Address:

The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium
2900 Southern Blvd.
Bronx, NY   10458-5126
US
https://www.nybg.org

Collection Statistics

  • 257,826 specimen records
  • 82,885 (32%) georeferenced
  • 253,971 (99%) with images (257,625 total images)
  • 241,238 (94%) identified to species
  • 49 families
  • 439 genera
  • 11,019 species
  • 11,686 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 October 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
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