Corporate Body

Western Australian Herbarium (1929 - )

From
1929
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Functions
Conservation or Environment
Website
http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/content/category/41/831/1821/
Location
cnr. George Street & Hayman Road, Kensington, Western Australia

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Books

  • Underwood, Roger, A Botanical Journey: the Story of the Western Australian Herbarium (Perth: Department of Environment and Conservation, 2011), 282 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Marchant, Neville, 'Documenting a flora: a History of the Western Australian Herbarium and its Collections', Early Days: Journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, 12 (2005), 566-83. Details
  • Parker, Cheryl M.; Percy-Bower, Julia M.; and James, Shelley A., 'From Engler to APGIV: a short history of the botanical arrangement of the Western Australian Herbarium collections', Nuytsia, 33 (2022), 113-41, https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/nuytsia/article/1027. Details

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Reviews

  • Underwood, Roger, A Botanical Journey: the Story of the Western Australian Herbarium (2011)
    Briggs, Barbara G., Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 150, (2012), 56-7. Details
  • Underwood, Roger, A Botanical Journey: the Story of the Western Australian Herbarium (2011)
    Cohn, Helen M., Historical Records of Australian Science, 23 (2), (2012), 228-9, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12014. Details

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
  • Perry, Michael, 'Obituary - Gillean Perry (Née Jenkins), 1943-2011', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 96 (2013), 31. Details

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