Corporate Body

Tasmanian Herbarium (c. 1830 - )

From
c. 1830
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Functions
Collection Management, Conservation or Environment, Herbarium and Plant Science
Website
https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/collections_and_research/tasmanian_herbarium
Location
College Road, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania

Summary

The Tasmanian Herbarium is the state's collection of preserved botanical specimens. Administratively it is part of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. It's principal function is the development, management,, maintenance and research on these collections. Geographically the Herbarium focuses on Tasmania, but does include material from Australia and the southern hemisphere in general. The earliest specimens date from c.1830. Research undertaken by Herbarium staff and research associates includes: the classification and relationships of the Tasmanian flora; ecology and distribution of weeds; bryophytes and lichens as monitors of forest health; and the conservation status of Tasmania's lichens. The Herbarium is a member of the Council of the Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), a collaborative association of Australia's principal herbaria, and contributes specimen information Australia's Virtual Herbarium, an initiative of CHAH.

Major collections held by the Herbarium include those of Ronald Gunn, Leonard Rodway, Geoffrey Bratt (lichens) and William Weymouth (bryophytes); Winifred Curtis, Dennis Morris and Janet Somerville (which underpinned the preparation of The student's flora of Tasmania); Rodney Seppelt (Antrctic and Subantarctic); and the lichen, bryophyte and subantarctic vascular plant collection which was transferred from the Australian Antarctic Division.

Skip to

Related Corporate Bodies

Related People

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Resources

See also

  • 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

Christine Moje and Helen Cohn

Created: 10 July 2012, Last modified: 26 November 2024

EOAS ID: biogs/P005215b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005215b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260