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The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium (NY)

Specimen Records: 4,746,675
Media Records: 4,063,689
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-10-29

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 collection, which is particularly strong in specimens from the Western Hemisphere. Digitization of all groups is ongoing, with ±4.7 million specimens barcoded and ±3.8 million imaged.

Contacts

Name Joel Ramirez
RoleWeb Developer for Biodiversity Information Management
Emailjramirez@nybg.org
Name Kimberly Watson
RoleAssistant Director of Biodiversity Information Management
Emailkwatson@nybg.org
Name Leanna Feder
RoleHerbarium Digital Asset Manager
Emaillfeder@nybg.org
Name Elizabeth Gjieli
RoleGeographical Information Manager
Emailegjieli@nybg.org
Name Emily Sessa
RoleDirector of the Herbarium
Emailesessa@nybg.org
Name Kimberly Watson
Rolenone
Emailkwatson@nybg.org
Name Kimberly Watson
RoleAssistant Director of Biodiversity Information Management
Emailkwatson@nybg.org
  • Data Corrected
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This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
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87.443
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87.443
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87.443
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87.443
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87.443
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87.443
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87.443
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78.761
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70.235
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69.807
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66.585
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60.751
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60.273
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49.306
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46.164
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41.509
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34.103
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24.216
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20.775
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19.472
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11.508
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8.778
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8.505
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7.278
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4.993
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4.891
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3.928
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3.2
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1.768
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1.724
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1.606
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1.028
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0.879
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0.241
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0.23
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0.223
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0.195
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0.132
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0.131
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0.131
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0.085
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0.066
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0.039
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i1353
0.029
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i1065
0.022
rev_geocode_failure  i832
0.018
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i442
0.009
geopoint_0_coord  i271
0.006
rev_geocode_flip  i229
0.005
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i174
0.004
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0.004
dwc_continent_added  i133
0.003
rev_geocode_both_sign  i83
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i47
0.001
dwc_taxonrank_added  i37
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i27
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i23
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i15
0
datecollected_bounds  i12
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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