Australian National Herbarium

Introducing the
Australian National Herbarium

• An introduction to the Herbarium
• Explore an herbarium specimen
• What makes a good specimen
• Public Reference Herbarium
• New Australian Tropical Herbarium, Cairns

Details about the Collections

• The Herbarium program within CPBR
• The collection in Canberra (CANB)
• The tropical collection in Cairns (CNS)

Research Activities

• Systematics and Evolution of the Australian Flora

Herbarium Management

• Visitors to the Australian National Herbarium
• Staff and Visitors Handbook - introduction to CPBR
• ANHSIR Manual - database entry procedure for specimens
• Collections Management Manual
• Scanning protologues for APNI
• Conditions for Loans and Exchanges
• Accession Policy
• Policy on destructive sampling
• Policy for de-accessioning specimens
• Non-staff use of Herbarium facilities - policy
• Curation table - who does what
• Herbarium specimen records - (registered users only - contact anhsirquery@anbg.gov.au with your project details to register).
• Disaster Management Plan for Herbarium - fire, flood etc

Names of Plants

• Australian Plant Census (APC)
• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
• International Plant Name Index (IPNI) - world-wide plant names
• SpeciesLinks - quick plant info finder for a range of databases

Botanical Information

• Botanical Databases   IBIS
• Photographs of plants
• Interactive CD Keys
• Plant Enquiry Service
• Botanical Resource Centre
• Collectors & Illustrators

Australia's Virtual Herbarium

• An introduction to the Virtual Herbarium
• Access to the Virtual Herbarium

Specimen requests or loans

• Explained for overseas institutions
• ANH conditions for Loans and Exchanges

Other Herbarium Activities

• How to collect herbarium specimens
• Herbarium Volunteers
• Australian Systematic Botany Society
• Greening the Grainbelt
• Australia's early botanical collections
• Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria
• TRIN Taxonomy Research Network
• DISACT Institution disasters in ACT