Resources of Australian Herbaria

Compiled by K.J.Cowley & J.G.West on behalf of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH)

HERBARIUM CODE:

AD

CITES number:

AU034 (prior to 11 Jan, 2002 CITES number was AU015)

HERBARIUM NAME:

State Herbarium of South Australia

DEPARTMENT / ORGANISATION:

1. Science & Conservation Directorate, Department for Environment & Heritage
2. Board of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide & State Herbarium

Prof. Andrew Lowe, Head of Science

Dr W.R. (Bill) Barker, Acting Chief Botanist , State Herbarium

Street Address:

Hackney Road,
Adelaide,
South Australia 5000

Postal Address:

PO Box 2732
Kent Town
SA 5071 Australia

City:

Adelaide

State:

South Australia

Postcode:

5071

Telephone:

08 - 8222 9308

Facsimile:

08 - 8222 9353

Email:

pbc@saugov.sa.gov.au

Location:

In the Plant Biodiversity Centre building (the old Tram Barn A), Adelaide Botanic Garden

AUTHORITY/STATUS:

State Government

ACCESS:

9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday

ASSOCIATED LIVING COLLECTION:

Botanic Gardens of Adelaide , Adelaide

FOUNDATION:

1954, but incorporating earlier herbaria particularly those established in the Adelaide Botanic Garden, the Botany Dept of the University of Adelaide, (including the extensive J.M. Black Herbarium), and South Australian Museum and more recently the Waite Agricultural Research Institute.

FUNCTIONS:

Principal knowledge and information resource on South Australia's native and naturalized plant, macroalgae and macrofungal biodiversity

A key centre in the network of Australian biological collection and research institutes further developing the taxonomic and spatial inventory of Australian biological diversity

Centre for systematics research in plants, macroalgae and macrofungi in groups (principally Australian) of specialist expertise

Programs in conservation biology research

Centre for deposition of vouchers of plants, macroalgae and macrofungi for biological and ecological studies

GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE:

Worldwide but with primary emphasis on South Australia in an Australian context; collections from South Australia account for at least 50% of the holdings .

TAXONOMIC SCOPE:

Collections cover all the Macrophytic groups; plants, macroalgae and macrofungi.

NUMBER OF SPECIMENS:

Total

Types

Angiosperms

770,000

1,250

Dicots

625,000

1,000

Monocots

145,000

250

Gymnosperms

4,000

some

Pteridophytes

15,000

some

Mosses

25,000

some

Liverworts

10,000

-

Lichens

16,000

some

Fungi

21,000

many

Algae

85,000

many

Fossils

-

-

Wood Samples

-

-

Accessioned

N/A}

Approximately 100,000

Unaccessioned

N/A}

are not incorporated

Status:

On going

Database Name:

ADHERB (specimens), CENSAP (census), Electronic Flora of South Australia (fact sheets)

Database Description:

TEXPRESS

Number of Specimen Records:

600,000

Access:

www.flora.sa.gov.au (Electronic Flora of South Australia; Australia's Virtual Herbarium ); large data dumps by request

Email and Internet:

surname.firstname@saugov.sa.gov.au
www.flora.sa.gov.au

Significant Historical Collections:

J.M. Black Herbarium (associated with first and second editions of ‘Flora of South Australia')

Significant Special Collections:

• Marine Algae (H.B.S. Womersley, students and associates)
• J.B. Cleland (macrofungi),
• R.S. Rogers (orchids),
• D.G. Catcheside (bryophytes)

Ancillary Collections:

Approximately 5,000 collections in ethanol - especially strong in Orchidaceae

Photographic Collections:

-

Botanical Library:

Staff reference library (shared with Botanic Gardens of Adelaide). Limited public access.

Director:

Andrew Lowe Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Adelaide; Head of Science, State Herbarium and BioSurvey of South Australia, Department for Environment & Heritage (molecular ecology)

Collection Manager :

Helen Vonow

Manager:

-

Chief Botanist:

Bill Barker (Acting) (Scrophulariaceae, Stackhousiaceae, Hakea, Josephinia, Lawrencia glomerata )

Taxonomists:

Graham Bell (Mosses)
Bob Chinnock (Myoporaceae, pteridophytes, Cactaceae)
Hellmut Toelken ( Kunzea , Hibbertia , Australian Crassulaceae)

Ecologists/Evolutionary Biologists:

-

Technical Officers:

Dean Cunningham
Martin O’Leary (Acacia)
Andrea Ramsay
Carolyn Ricci (macro-algae)

Volunteers:

c. 20

Associates:

Robyn Barker (Acanthaceae, Hakea, Sida, Abutilon, Zygophyllaceae)
David Symon (Solanaceae, Rosaceae)
Bryan Womersley (marine algae)
Pam Catcheside (macrofungi)
John Jessop (Gramineae)
Munir Ahmad Abid (Chloanthaceae, Verbenaceae)
Bob Baldock (macro-algae)

Taxonomic:

Non-Taxonomic:

A/Manager Jeff Foulkes, Biological Survey of South Australia (SA Dept for Environment & Heritage)
Ancient DNA Laboratory (University of Adelaide, Dept for Environment & Heritage, Board of Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium) (Director: Prof. Allan Cooper)

Relating to the Collection:

-

Relating to the Herbarium:

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden

Notes:

Available as exchange for journals of relevance to the Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium