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:

BRI

CITES number:

AU017 (Prior to 11 Jan, 2002 CITES number was AU021)

HERBARIUM NAME:

Queensland Herbarium

DEPARTMENT / ORGANISATION:

Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management

CONTACT DETAILS
Street Address:

Queensland Herbarium
Department of Environment and Resource Management
c/- Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha
Mt Coot-tha Road
Toowong 4066

Postal Address:

As above

City:

Brisbane

State:

Queensland

Postcode:

4066

Telephone:

(07) 3896 9325

Facsimile:

(07) 3896 9624

Email:

queensland.herbarium@derm.qld.gov.au

Location:

The Queensland Herbarium (BRI) is located c. 6 km W of the centre of Brisbane. The North Queensland collection is now incorporated into the Australian Tropical Herbarium, Cairns (CNS).

AUTHORITY/STATUS:

Queensland State Government

ACCESS:

By prior arrangement with the Director

ASSOCIATED LIVING COLLECTION:

Nil

FOUNDATION:

1855 when W. Hill was appointed Superintendent of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens and then Queensland Colonial Botanist in 1859. The Herbarium’s specimen nucleus commenced in 1887 when F.M. Bailey was transferred from the Queensland Museum with his private collection to the Dept of Agriculture as Colonial Botanist.

FUNCTIONS:

Centre for botanical research and Information on the Queensland flora, plant communities and ecology, part of the Queensland Environment and Resource Management.

GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE:

Mainly Queensland, New Guinea, other Australian States, SE Asia.

TAXONOMIC SCOPE:

Comprehensive for Queensland plant taxa.

NUMBER OF SPECIMENS:

Total

Types

Angiosperms

Dicots

Monocots

Gymnosperms

Pteridophytes

Mosses

Liverworts and Hornworts

Lichens

Fungi

Algae

Fossils

Wood Samples

Accessioned

Unaccessioned

Status:

Majority of collections databased.

Database Name:

HERBRECS

Database Description:

Oracle relational database including taxon names and specimen data.

Number of Specimen Records:

805,286

Access:

Visitors should contact the Director,
(07) 3896 9325. See our website for details

Email and Internet:

www.derm.qld.gov.au/herbarium

Significant Historical Collections:

Duplicates from Banks and Solander collections in 1770, total c.100. Collections of F.M. Bailey, L.J. Brass and earlier explorers.

Significant Special Collections:

A.B. Cribb (algal collection)
S. F. Kajewski, A. B. Cribb, L. S. Smith, F. M. Bailey, J. G. Tracey, J. F. Bailey, L. J. Webb, L. J. Brass, S. L. Everist, C. T. White, S. T. Blake, J.F.Shirley, P.I.Forster, A.R.Bean, G.N.Batianoff, J.R.Clarkson, K.R.McDonald

Ancillary Collections:

Carpological, spirit, wood.

Photographic Collections:

Prints, slides, digital images, air photographs.

Botanical Library:

Not open to public. Access by arrangement with the Director.

Director/Chief Botanist:

Gordon Guymer

Curator:

-

Manager:

Ailsa Holland

Taxonomists:

A.R. Bean (Acanthaceae, Amaranthaceae, Apiaceae, Araliaceae, Ericaceae, Melastomataceae, Myrtaceae, (Leptospermoideae), Rhamnaceae, Rosaceae, Solanaceae, Stylidiaceae)

R. Booth (Centrolepidaceae Cyperaceae Juncaceae Restionaceae)

P.D. Bostock (Ferns, Orchidaceae)

N. Fechner (fungi, Brassicaceae, Scrophulariaceae)

P.I. Forster (Agavaceae, Apocynaceae, Araceae, Arecaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Cactaceae, Campanulaceae, Commelinaceae, Cycadaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Lamiaceae, Proteaceae, Rubiaceae, Rutaceae, Sapindaceae, Violaceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae, Zamiaceae, Zingiberaceae)

G.P. Guymer (Bignoniaceae, Byttneriaceae, Gesneriaceae, Malvaceae, Myrtaceae (Myrtoideae), Simaroubaceae, Sterculiaceae, Winteraceae)

A.E. Holland (Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Goodeniaceae, Oxalidaceae, Papaveraceae)

L.W. Jessup (Anacardiaceae, Cunoniaceae, Dilleniaceae, Ebenaceae, Hypericaceae, Lauraceae, Meliaceae, Monimiaceae, Moraceae, Sapotaceae, Symplocaceae )

B.K. Simon (Poaceae)

K.Stephens (floras, weeds)

G.Turpin (Cairns, NQ Acacia)

Ecologists/Evolutionary Biologists:

R.J. Fensham (grasslands, woodlands, Artesian springs)
W.J.F. McDonald (rainforests, vine thickets, brigalow)
V.J. Neldner (Qld vegetation, regional ecosystems, Cape York flora)
B. Wilson (Vegetation survey and mapping, wetlands)
E. Addicott (Cairns), C. Appelman (Townsville), R. Cumming (Townsville), R. Dowling, R. Fairfax, H. Dillewaard, K. Jones, D. Kelman, J. Kemp (Townsville), A. Pollock, C. Pennay, T. Ryan, E.J. Thompson, J. Wang, M. Laidlaw, T. Eyre, A. Kelly, A. Borsboom, G. Smith, M. Mathieson, L. Hogan, M. Venz, D. Ferguson

Technical Officers:

A. Bolin, M.A. Louden, M.B. Thomas, A.M. Wood, M. Edginton, G. Wilson (Cairns), M.Hosking, R. Booth, R. Lovatt (Townsville), M. Newton ( Cairns)

IT Staff:

P.A. Robins, R. Niehus, J. Kelley, A. Accad, D. Richter, J. Li, T. Honeman, P. Bannink ( Cairns), J. Bahr (Townsville).

Volunteers:

4

Associates:

J. Clarkson (Erythroxylaceae)
C. Hankamer (Moraceae)
R.J.F. Henderson (Liliales),
R.W. Johnson (Convolvulaceae),
L. Pedley (Acacia, Tephrosia),
P.R. Sharpe, John Hodgon (sedges),
R. Rogers (lichens)
H.T. Clifford (grasses),
J. Phillips (marine algae)
G. McGregor (freshwater algae)
R. Halling, T. Young, P. Leonard, S. McMullan-Fisher, F. Guard, R. Shivas (microfungi),
D. Halford (Tiliaceae, Euphorbiaceae),
W. Harris (Orchidaceae, Oleaceae),
P. Cameron (cultivated plants),
T. Scharaschkin (phylogeny, histology)
R. Patterson (bryophytes)

Taxonomic:

Acacia, Alphitonia, Boletales (fungi), Calocephalus, Calotis, Capparis, Chamaesyce, Commersonia, Convolvulaceae, Corymbia, Crotalaria, Croton, Cycas, Cyperaceae Diplocaulobium, Ebenaceae, Eucalyptus, Galactia, Goodenia, Grossulariaceae, Huperzia (ferns), Hypericum, Hoya, Indigofera, Juncus, Kennedia, Lepidosperma, Macrozamia, Mischocarpus, Phyllanthus, Poaceae, Plectranthus, Psychotria, Ptilotus, Ramaria (fungi), Rutidosis, Sapotaceae, Scaevola, Solanum, Sphagnum (moss), Sporobolus, Symplocaceae, Tephrosia, Vigna, Vittadinia, Zieria. Zornia.

Non-Taxonomic:

Vegetation survey and mapping of Queensland
Grassland ecology
Threatened species and communities: assessment, biogeographic survey, research and information
Plant biogeography
Woodland ecology
Weed ecology and information
Coastal ecology
Wetlands
Regrowth ecology
Carbon sequestration

Relating to the Collection:

Census of Queensland Flora (2010)

Austrobaileya (journal published annually)

Relating to the Herbarium:

Flora of North Stradbroke Island, Methodology for Survey and Mapping of Regional Ecosystems, and Vegetation Communities in Queensland.

Notes:

The Queensland Herbarium holds vegetation community data in digital and accessible form for most of the State at 1:100 000 scale in a geographic information system and regional ecosystem description database. These data are available from the Herbarium databases www.derm.qld.gov.au/REMAP .