Corporate Body

State Herbarium of South Australia (1954 - )

From
1954
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Functions
Collection Management, Conservation or Environment, Herbarium, Taxonomic botany and Plant Science
Alternative Names
  • Adelaide Herbarium (Also known as)
  • South Australian Herbarium (Also known as)
Website
https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/science-conservation/state-herbarium/about
Location
Botanic Gardens, North Terrace, Adelaide 5069

Summary

The State Herbarium of South Australia was established in 1954 when earlier South Australian plant collections were brought together. These included the former collections of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens; and collections from the South Australia Museum, the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, the Field Naturalists Club of South Australia, and the Department of Botany at the University of Adelaide. The latter included the J. M. Black Herbarium. Situated within the Gardens, the Herbarium is the major centre for the study of the systematics, biodiversity, biogeography and conservation of the South Australian flora, fungi and algae. It is also the centre for the deposition of voucher specimens for this flora. The Herbarium and Gardens are administered under the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium Act of 1978, under the oversight of the Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium.

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Papers resulting from the research of botanists at the Herbarium are published in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens (ISSN 0313-4083): in 2018 it was renamed Swainsona.

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See also

  • Barker, R. M., 'David Eric Symon (1920-2011)', Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 26 (2013), 71-96. Details
  • Cowley, K. J.; West, J. G, Resources of Australian Herbaria: a Guide to Herbaria Located in Australia (Canberra: Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 1999), [84] pp. Details
  • Cowley, K. J.; West, J. G, Resources of Australian Herbaria [online], with Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria, Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 2002, http://www.anbg.gov.au/chah/resources/intro/index.html. Details
  • Robertson, E. L., 'Botany' in Ideas and Endeavours - The Natural Sciences in South Australia, C. R. Twidale; M. J. Tyler and M. Davies, eds (Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia, 1986), pp. 101-49. Details

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