Resources of Australian Herbaria

HERBARIUM CODE:

NE

CITES number:

AU015

HERBARIUM NAME:

N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium

DEPARTMENT / ORGANISATION:

The University of New England, Armidale

CONTACT DETAILS
Street Address:

N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium, Botany, UNE, Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia

Postal Address:

N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium, Botany, UNE, Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia

City:

Armidale

State:

NSW

Postcode:

2351

Telephone:

(02) 6773 2429 (Director) (02) 6773 2875 (Herbarium)

Facsimile:

(02) 6773 3283 (Botany & Herbarium)

Email:

jbruhl@metz.une.edu.au (Director); itelford@une.edu.au (Curator)

Location:

Botany (Building S2), School of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources Management, Faculty of the Sciences.

AUTHORITY/STATUS:

University

ACCESS:

-

ASSOCIATED LIVING COLLECTION:

Planned NE Regional BG (with Armidale City Council)

FOUNDATION:

1938, redeveloped 1958, redeveloped 1997

FUNCTIONS:

Teaching, research training, research, community service, consultancy

GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE:

1: northern NSW; 2: south-eastern Qld; 3 rest of NSW; 4: rest of Australia; 5: rest of world (descending priority from 1 to 5)

TAXONOMIC SCOPE:

Emphasis on research areas such as Cyperaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Euphorbiaceae (Phyllanthaceae and Bertya), Hormoranthus

NUMBER OF SPECIMENS:

Total

Types

Angiosperms

72875

112 (incorporated; others part of current research projects to be published and/or incorporated)

Dicots

57806

-

Monocots

15069

-

Gymnosperms

574

-

Pteridophytes

2441

-

Mosses

192

-

Liverworts

38

-

Lichens

582

-

Fungi

6002
(please note this largely represents the phyllofungal collection of the Late Ian Parbery; i.e. microfungi parasitising leaves, mostly of rainforst trees and shrubs. The host are identified.). Macrofungi are as yet poorly represented.

-

Algae

48

-

Fossils

-

-

Wood Samples

-

-

Accessioned

-

-

Unaccessioned

c. 15000

-

* most yet to be incorporated, also have c. 100 photos of types
** Student collection

Status:

First computerised in 1983. Current database provides functional basic specimen information for all incorporated specimens of the collection, redevelopment is underway in conjunction with UNE's Information Technology Division and the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (CANB)

Database Name:

-

Database Description:

MS Access (will migrate back to Oracle with redevelopment)

Number of Specimen Records:

c. 68,000

Access:

Currently single-user (will be multi-user under Oracle)

Email and Internet:

Email: jbruhl@une.edu.au Internet: www.esnrm.une.edu.au/botany/herbarium.html

Significant Historical Collections:

-

Significant Special Collections:

Ian Parbery (epiphyllous microfungi); Jeremy M.B. Smith (weed Flora of New England); John B. Williams (Flora of north-eastern NSW)

Ancillary Collections:

The ‘student collection’ (Stud.) includes 1861 databased replicates of the main NE collection focused on northern NSW and south-eastern Queensland.

Photographic Collections:

Photos of Types from BM, K, MEL, etc.

Botanical Library:

Basic taxonomic library associated with NE, together with the main University ‘Dixson Library’

Director:

Jeremy J. Bruhl

Curator:

Ian R. Telford

Manager:

N/A

Chief Botanist:

N/A

Taxonomists:

David Backhouse (mycology & plant pathology),
Jeremy Bruhl (plant systematics, Cyperaceae, Phyllanthaceae),
Lachlan Copeland (plant systematics, Homoranthus, Orchidaceae, Flora of ne NSW),
Caroline Gross (systematics and conservation biology, Sesbania),
Mohammad Fatemi (Bertya)
Ian Telford (plant systematics, Cucurbitaceae, Phyllanthaceae, Australian Flora)
R.D.B. (Wal) Whalley (Poaceae)

Ecologists/Evolutionary Biologists:

Peter Clarke, Caroline Gross, GlendaVaughton, Nigel Warwick, R.D.B. (Wal) Whalley

Technical Officers:

Ian Simpson, Richard Willis

Volunteers:

Judy Birtles, David Lawrence, Brigitte Stievermann, Hans Wissman, Kath Wray; plus student volunteers

Associates:

R.D.B. (Wal) Whalley

Taxonomic:

Plant systematics in Cyperaceae, Cucurbitacaeae, Euphorbiaceae (mostly Phyllanthaceae), Rutaceae, Orchidaceae, Poaceae, Fabaceae, Myrtaceae, etc.

Non-Taxonomic:

Plant ecology (PC & RDBW), plant ecophysiology (NW), evolutionary ecology (CG & GV), biogeography (JJB & IRT), plant pathology (DB).

Relating to the Collection:

-

Relating to the Herbarium:

-

Notes:

NE is an active, regional, university herbarium.