Australian National Herbarium

The Herbarium houses specialist collections of world importance, including:
. the world's most comprehensive eucalypts collection;
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The Australian National Herbarium is part of the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research- a collaborative organisation between CSIRO Plant Industry and Australian National Botanic Gardens (DAWE). The cornerstone of botanical research for the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research is the Australian National Herbarium which houses a collection of 1.3 million plant specimens, documenting

the diversity of the Australian flora. With specimens dating back to Captain Cook's 1770 expedition, the Herbarium's comprehensive collections underpin the reliable identification of plants originating from field studies and the extraction of ecological data. an extensive collection of the flora of northern Australia and New Guinea;
. Australia's largest collection of mosses, lichens and liverworts;
. a specialist tropical rain forest collection housed in north Queensland. The Australian National Herbarium is a valuable source of data for mapping past and present vegetation distribution, revealing variations due to changes in climate and landuse patterns. Its collections also function as a reference basis for the Flora of Australia project. The Herbarium provides a range of services, including plant identification, for professional clients and the general public. Public enquiries can be submitted at the Visitor Information Centre on the Botanic Gardens site (Tel: (02) 6250-9450) where there is also a Public Reference Herbarium and small public library. The Herbarium conducts volunteer programs for members of the public wishing to support the work of the Centre, and a specialised Student Botanical Internship Program for selected tertiary students to provide advanced training. The Herbarium is located at three sites. The flowering plants collection is held at the herbarium in the grounds of CSIRO adjacent to the Botanic Gardens on Black Mountain. The cryptogam (including ferns) and gymnosperm collections are held in the herbarium adjacent to the Visitor Information Centre within the Australian National Botanic Gardens. A third collection concentrating on rainforest species is held at the Atherton Herbarium Annexe in north Queensland. Botanical Information Management. The Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research uses its research programs and collections to provide a national focus for botanical data. Text and image data based on the collections have been made available throughout the world via the Internet. The Centre is also responsible for the coordination and maintenance of important national botanical databases developed by the Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Nature Conservation Agency and CSIRO, including the Australian Plant Name Index, Rare or Threatened Australian Plants (ROTAP), and the Economic Plants of Australia. The Centre is taking a leading role in making complex biological information more accessible by establishing common standards and conventions for botanical databases. https://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/herbarium/introduction-anh.html

08/02/2022

The days of endless hours trawling library shelves looking for the latest in orchid taxonomy research are over!

Biodiversity Heritage Library is putting Australian Orchid Review online, with the first issues freely available this month https://bit.ly/334S9vL.

Now everyone can have free access to this vital information about orchid taxonomy research, including the documentation of new orchid species, and high-quality images.

This is especially important not only to promote the growth of scientific knowledge, but also to assist in conservation management of many rare and threatened Australian endemic species. Not everyone working with these species has institutional access to journal articles … and because of this, important information can get overlooked or lost, potentially leading to suboptimal outcomes for the species.

Biodiversity Heritage Library is an international organisation dedicated to making biodiversity research and publications easily accessible online. They are a central repository for all those difficult to get references … and they find and scan these references from libraries (bricks and mortar libraries) around the world.

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07/02/2022

Hello blossoms! Uncovering Australia's little-known hibiscus species We’re using cutting-edge science and herbarium specimens to uncover the mysterious origins of Australia’s hibiscus species.

22/06/2021

Congratulations to all our colleagues involved in this exciting collaboration!

Winners are grinners!

The Tropical Mountain Plant Science (TroMPS) collaboration, led by the ATH, has won the Wet Tropics Management Authority's prestigious Cassowary Award in the category Climate Change Leadership.

TroMPS is working to secure the future of Australia’s climate-threatened tropical mountaintop plants by building a multi-strategy, ex-situ conservation reserve to ‘backup’ at-risk wild populations and support research, display and education.
Project partners are undertaking novel research on seed banking strategies, measuring genetic diversity and testing plant tolerance of extreme climates to ensure that the reserve collections, distributed across multiple Botanic Gardens and Seed Banks along Australia’s east coast, are genetically and physiologically diverse, and climatically matched to wild habitat.
Communicating science and conservation messages is achieved through an artist-in-residency, media and scholarly publications, and ultimately through in-gardens interpretive materials. Our collaborators include: Western Yalanji, Jabalbina Aboriginal Corporation, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian National Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, PlantBank, Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Australian Rhododendron Society Victoria Branch, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Cairns Botanic Gardens, Mossman Botanic Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Cranbourne, National Herbarium of Victoria, Wet Tropics Management Authority, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, and Donna Davis (artist).

The grinning winner in the photo is the project manager, Stuart Worboys, receiving this coveted award on behalf of all the partners, and our supporters (Ian Potter Foundation, The Geoff Ross Endowment, Threatened Species Initiative and the Wet Tropics Management Authority). Photo: Wet Tropics Images.

A news report is here https://www.tropicnow.com.au/2021/june/21/local-leaders-awarded-for-wet-tropics-conservation-projects

02/02/2021

While the online projects will continue for a few more weeks the face-to-face portion of the 2021 Virtual Botanical Training Program has come to an end. Many thanks to all the presenters and our enthusiastic participants from across four states who joined us for our foray into the world of online training.

29/01/2021

Just a reminder,

Please join us on Tuesday the 2nd of February from 9:30 - 12:30 AEST To honour the distinguished career of Dr Mark Clements. It will be a virtual mini-symposium of preeminent orchid researchers. To join click the link below on the time and date specified above.
Webcast Link: https://webcast.csiro.au/ #/webcasts/markclementssymposium

10/01/2021

Please join us on Tuesday the 2nd of February from 9:30 - 12:30 AEST To honour the distinguished career of Dr Mark Clements. It will be a virtual mini-symposium of preeminent orchid researchers. To join click the link below on the time and date specified above.

Webcast Link: https://webcast.csiro.au/ #/webcasts/markclementssymposium

11/12/2020

Due to uncertainty surrounding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the Botanical Training Program will not run as usual in January and February 2021. We will be replacing the usual in-person program with a short, online program of presentations and projects, which will run over three weeks starting on Monday January 11th. If you are a student of botany, environmental science and related subjects we would love to hear from you. For further details see https://www.anbg.gov.au/trainee/.

26/10/2020

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This orchid flower is a 'one-in-50 year' find — but you'll likely never see it

14/09/2020

A new species of underground orchid! Quite literally uncovered by 2010 Volunteer Botanical Trainee Maree Elliott and described by Australian National Herbarium research scientist Dr. Mark Clements.

This orchid flower is a 'one-in-50 year' find — but you'll likely never see it Researchers say in order to protect an underground orchid, which never usually emerges from the leaf litter, the safest thing to do is to keep its location top secret.

Photos from Australian National Botanic Gardens's post

01/09/2020

01/09/2020

Happy Wattle Day!
The Australian National Herbarium is proud to be part of the Genomics for Australian Plants (GAP) Initiative. The aim of the GAP Initiative is to develop genomics resources to enhance our understanding of the evolution and conservation of our unique flora.
https://www.genomicsforaustralianplants.com/

Australia's national floral emblem Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) is being sequenced as the first of three pilot reference genome projects. The Acacia team includes both Australian and international researchers from the Australian National Herbarium, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Queensland Herbarium, the CSIRO, Australian Tree Seed Centre, Acacia Genome Consortium, GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, UC Davis and Penn Biology.
Learn more about this exciting program here:
https://bioplatforms.com/news/golden-wattle-media-release/

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