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New York Botanical Garden, USA (NYBG-NYBG)

Within its extensive holdings, approximately 5.6 million specimens in the Steere Herbarium are vascular plants, 1 million are bryophytes (mosses and hepatics)
Contact: Barbara Thiers, Patricia K. Holmgren Director of the Herbarium, Vice President for Science Administration (bthiers@nybg.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 April 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The New York Botanical Garden
Access Rights: Public Domain
Collection Statistics
  • 85 specimen records
  • 27 (32%) georeferenced
  • 18 (21%) with images
  • 70 (82%) identified to species
  • 20 families
  • 26 genera
  • 40 species
  • 40 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Family Distribution
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that family
  • Bartramiaceae (2)
  • Brachytheciaceae (10)
  • Daltoniaceae (1)
  • Dicranaceae (4)
  • Fabaceae (4)
  • Grimmiaceae (7)
  • Hypnaceae (6)
  • Leskeaceae (1)
  • Metzgeriaceae (2)
  • Nectriaceae (4)
  • Orthotrichaceae (6)
  • Pilotrichaceae (3)
  • Plagiotheciaceae (7)
  • Pottiaceae (2)
  • Radulaceae (1)
  • Rhizogoniaceae (2)
  • Sematophyllaceae (10)
  • Solanaceae (11)
  • Sphagnaceae (1)
  • Stereocaulaceae (1)
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