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 4.2 million specimens barcoded and 3.2 million specimens imaged.

Director of the Herbarium: Emily Sessa, esessa@nybg.org

Assistant Director of Botanical Information Management: Kim Watson, kwatson@nybg.org

Homepage: https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/

Virtual Herbarium: https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/vh/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Last Update: 4 May 2021

IPT / DwC-A Source:

IPT import

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Cite this collection:

New York Botanical Garden. Occurrence dataset (ID: 4c66206d-e3db-4efe-85a2-160e3bb1c13d) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-12-06).

Address:

The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium

2900 Southern Blvd.

Bronx, NY 10458-5126

https://www.nybg.org

Collection Statistics

256,058 specimen records
67,779 (26%) georeferenced
223,746 (87%) with images (227,084 total images)
239,912 (94%) identified to species
49 families
450 genera
10,995 species
11,666 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Home >> Collection Search Page >> Collection Profile 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 4.2 million specimens barcoded and 3.2 million specimens imaged. Director of the Herbarium: Emily Sessa, esessa@nybg.org Assistant Director of Botanical Information Management: Kim Watson, kwatson@nybg.org Homepage: https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ Virtual Herbarium: https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/vh/ Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Data snapshot of local collection database Last Update: 4 May 2021 IPT / DwC-A Source: IPT import Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain) Cite this collection: New York Botanical Garden. Occurrence dataset (ID: 4c66206d-e3db-4efe-85a2-160e3bb1c13d) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-12-06). Address: The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium 2900 Southern Blvd. Bronx, NY 10458-5126 US https://www.nybg.org Collection Statistics 256,058 specimen records 67,779 (26%) georeferenced 223,746 (87%) with images (227,084 total images) 239,912 (94%) identified to species 49 families 450 genera 10,995 species 11,666 total taxa (including subsp. and var.) Extra Statistics Show Geographic Distribution Show Family Distribution
The PCC, and this data portal, were made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) program, grant numbers 1802504, 1802352, 1802134, 1802033, 1802270, 1802255, 1802239, 1802446, 1802305. The pteridoportal taxonomic thesaurus is based on the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, generously provided by Michael Hassler.