New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden will incorporate the Kohlmeyer Herbarium of Marine Fungi into the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium. The Kohlmeyer Herbarium is an invaluable collection of 6,000 dried and fluid-preserved specimens of marine fungi and 17,500 permanent microscopic slides. The project will help to protect a unique, extraordinarily well documented and scientifically relevant collection and make it available to the scientific community through direct consultation and online via the C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium. These data will be the reference point for all future work on marine fungi, including their identification and evolution, as well as the key to understanding the role of these organisms in marine and estuarine environments. By organizing data in a standardized format, the project will facilitate the interpretation of information across multiple institutions and support wide-scale scientific collaborations.