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New York Botanical Garden (NY-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 Western Hemisphere. Digitization of all groups is underway, with more than 4.2 million specimens barcoded and 3.6 million imaged.

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New York Botanical Garden. Occurrence dataset (ID: badf0d8e-4c64-41af-9b46-442480ce07c1) accessed via the All Asia TCN Portal, allasiatcn.org, 2026-07-18).

Collection Statistics

  • 120,275 specimen records
  • 33,575 (28%) georeferenced
  • 117,787 (98%) with media (125,263 total media)
  • 80,758 (67%) identified to species
  • 344 families
  • 3,496 genera
  • 20,813 species
  • 21,925 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Upload: 2 February 2026
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: Manual import from IPT; IPT Import
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