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 Resource Centre, Client Services, Department of Environment & Natural Resources, South Australian Government
2. Board of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide & State Herbarium

Graham Bell, Acting Chief Botanist , State Herbarium
Prof. Andrew Lowe, Head of Science

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 9311

Facsimile:

08 - 8222 9457

Email:

firstname.lastname@sa.gov.au OR stateherbsa@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 naturalised plant, macroalgal 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.

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

815,000

2,500

Dicots

625,000

1,000

Monocots

145,000

250

Gymnosperms

4,000

10

Pteridophytes

15,000

20

Mosses

25,000

20

Liverworts

10,000

10

Lichens

14,000

50

Fungi

27,000

800

Algae

90,000

600

Fossils

~200

<10

Wood Samples

-

-

Accessioned

N/A}

-

Unaccessioned

Approximately 100,000 are not incorporated in the main collection, but at some stage in the accession process

-

Status:

On going

Database Name:

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

Database Description:

TEXPRESS

Number of Specimen Records:

700,000

Access:

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

Email and Internet:

firstname.lastname@sa.gov.au
www.flora.sa.gov.au
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Knowledge_Bank/Science_and_research/State_Herbarium

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:

Ms Sandy Carruthers
Manager, Science Resource Centre, Client Services, Department of Environment & Natural Resources, South Australian Government

Head of Science

Professor Andrew Lowe,
Professor of Plant Conservation Biology, The University of Adelaide,
Head of Science, Science Resource Centre, Client Services, Department of Environment & Natural Resources, South Australian Government

Manager:

Peter Canty, Manager State Herbarium, Science Resource Centre

Chief Botanist:

Vacant
Graham Bell, Acting

Taxonomists:

Robyn Barker (Acanthaceae, Hakea, Sida, Abutilon, Zygophyllaceae; Census of South Australian Plants, Algae and Fungi)
Graham Bell (Mosses)
Fred Gurgel (macro-algae)
Juergen Kellermann (Rhamnaceae, Flora of South Australia coordinator, Editor of Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden)

Ecologists/Evolutionary Biologists:

Hugh Cross, Molecular Botanist

Technical Officers:

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

Volunteers:

c. 20

Associates:

Bob Baldock (macro-algae), Bill Barker (Scrophulariaceae, Stackhousiaceae, Hakea, Josephinia, Lawrencia glomerata ), Robyn Barker (Acanthaceae, Hakea, Sida, Abutilon, Zygophyllaceae), Pam Catcheside (macrofungi), Bob Chinnock (Myoporaceae, pteridophytes, Cactaceae), John Jessop (Gramineae), Munir Ahmad Abid (Chloanthaceae, Verbenaceae), David Symon (Solanaceae, Rosaceae), Hellmut Toelken ( Kunzea , Hibbertia , Australian Crassulaceae)

Taxonomic:

See above

Non-Taxonomic:

The Biological Survey of South Australia
Science Resource Centre, Client Services, Department of Environment & Natural Resources

Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD)
The University of Adelaide; Department of Environment & Natural Resources; Board of Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium. (Director: Prof. Allan Cooper)

Relating to the Collection:

Flora of South Australia Census of South Australian Plants, Algae and Fungi http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/census.shtml

Relating to the Herbarium:

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden

Notes:

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