The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium holds approximately 7.8 million dried plant and fungal collections. These invaluable specimens document the foundations of ecosystems, hold a permanent record of Earth\u2019s plant and fungal life, document the uses of plants, and form the raw data used in research ranging from international collaborations addressing issues of biodiversity, conservation, and evolution, to community scientists and high school student science fair projects.<\/p>\n
The Steere herbarium is one of the most frequently used of the approximately 3400 herbaria in the world. The Herbarium is consulted in the nearly 200 research projects of Garden scientists and students, and an average of 150 visitors travel to New York City each year to use the collection, spending on average 1200 person-days per year. Additionally, 30,000 to 50,000 specimens are loaned annually to scientists at other institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n An extensive history of the Herbarium can be found in the following articles: Holmgren, P. K., J.A. Kallunki & B.M. Thiers. 1996. A short description of the collections of The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium (NY). Brittonia 48: 285-296; and Pace, M.C., N. Tarnowsky, E.D. Bloch, A. Weiss, C. Zimmermann, and B.M. Thiers. 2016. An updated description of the collections and history of The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium (NY): 1995\u20132015. Brittonia 68(3): 317\u2013323. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium holds approximately 7.8 million dried plant and fungal collections. These invaluable specimens document the foundations of ecosystems, hold a permanent record of Earth\u2019s plant and fungal life, document the uses of plants, and form…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1077,"parent":215,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1169","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n