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An updated description of the collections and history of The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium (NY): 1995–2015

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In celebration of The New York Botanical Garden’s 125th anniversary, we present an updated description of the specimen holdings and activities of The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden (NY) from 1995 to 2015. During this time, the collection grew to approximately 7.8 million specimens, a new International Plant Sciences Center was built to house the Herbarium and LuEsther T. Mertz Library, many plant families and other taxonomic groups grew in scope and taxonomic comprehensiveness, Southeast Asia developed as a new focus of collecting activities, and the Herbarium emerged as a leader in specimen digitization.

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The authors wish to thank the many staff members from 1995 to 2015 who compiled in Annual Reports the raw data used in this manuscript; Patricia Holmgren, Jacquelyn Kallunki, and Lawrence Kelly for helpful comments during review of this manuscript; the Board of The New York Botanical Garden for their support.

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  1. William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY, 10458-5126, USA

    Matthew C. Pace, Nicole Tarnowsky, Ellen D. Bloch, Amy Weiss, Charles Zimmerman & Barbara M. Thiers

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ᅟ Origins of staff collections, 1995–2015; top 30 countries only. Countries with asterisks are the ten largest sources of new staff collections during this period.
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ᅟ Collections of algae, bryophytes, fungi, lichens, and vascular plants donated to NY, 1995–2015.
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Pace, M.C., Tarnowsky, N., Bloch, E.D. et al. An updated description of the collections and history of The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium (NY): 1995–2015. Brittonia 68, 317–323 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-016-9422-8

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