List of herbaria in Oceania explained

Listed here are the 48 currently active herbaria in Oceania, organised by herbarium code, with institution name, location and collection sizes as per Index Herbariorum.^[1]

List of active herbaria

Australia

Herbarium Code	Institution	Location	Collection Size
ACH	National Mycology Reference Centre	Adelaide, South Australia	2,000
AD		Adelaide, South Australia	1,040,000
BRI		Brisbane, Queensland	871,571
BRIP		Brisbane, Queensland	100,000
CANB		Canberra, Australian Capital Territory	1,204,426
CFSHB		Coffs Harbour, New South Wales	20,000
CNS	Australian Tropical Herbarium	Cairns, Queensland	195,000
DAR	NSW Plant Pathology and Mycology Herbarium	Orange, New South Wales	115,000
DMHN		Newcastle, New South Wales	10,644
DNA		Palmerston, Northern Territory	255,000
DNAP		Darwin, Northern Territory	4,000
ECU		Joondalup, Western Australia	10,000
ERBG	Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden	Batemans Bay, New South Wales	14,261
GAUBA		Canberra, Australian Capital Territory	25,000
HO		Sandy Bay, Tasmania	300,000
IBRG	Macquarie University Indigenous Bioresources Research Group	Sydney, New South Wales	125
JCT		Townsville, Queensland	25,800
KPBG		West Perth, Western Australia	25,000
LTB		Bundoora, Victoria	25,000 ^[2]
MEL		South Yarra, Victoria	1,500,000
MELU	University of Melbourne Herbarium	Parkville, Victoria	150,000
MQU		North Ryde, New South Wales	13,000
MURU		Murdoch, Western Australia	7,000
NE		Armidale, New South Wales	65,000
NSW		Sydney, New South Wales	1,425,000
NT		Alice Springs, Northern Territory	65,000
PERTH		Kensington, Western Australia	807,340
PHARM		Lismore, New South Wales	6,500
SYD		Sydney, New South Wales	60,000
UNSW		Kensington, New South Wales	61,000
UWA		Crawley, Western Australia	13,000
VPRI		Bundoora, Victoria	42,000
WAC	Department of Primary Industry and Regional Development	South Perth, Western Australia	5,800
WOLL		Wollongong, New South Wales	7000

New Zealand


Herbarium Code	Institution	Location	Collection Size
AK		Auckland	350,000
CANU		Christchurch	41,000
CHBG		Christchurch	8,500
CHR		Lincoln	700,000
LINC		Lincoln	10,000
MPN		Palmerston North	30,500
NZFRI		Rotorua	37,000
NZFRIM	Scion (Crown Research Institute) — Fungi	Bay of Plenty	11,000
OTA	Otago Regional Herbarium (University of Otago)	Dunedin	70,000
PDD	Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research (Fungi)	Auckland	104,000
UNITEC		Auckland	10,120
WAIK		Hamilton	17,000
WELT		Wellington	293,000

Elsewhere in Oceania

Oceania's largest herbaria based on collection size

The ten largest herbaria in Oceania, based on total collection size are:


Collection Size	Herbarium Code	Location
1,500,000^[3]	MEL	South Yarra, Victoria
1,425,000^[4]	NSW	Sydney, New South Wales
1,204,426^[5]	CANB	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
1,040,000^[6]	AD	Adelaide, South Australia
871,571^[7]	BRI	Brisbane, Queensland
807,340^[8]	PERTH	Kensington, Western Australia
700,000^[9]	CHR	Lincoln, New Zealand
350,000^[10]	AK	Auckland, New Zealand
300,000^[11]	HO	Sandy Bay, Tasmania
293,000^[12]	WELT	Wellington, New Zealand

Notes and References

Web site: Thiers. B.. List of Active and Inactive Australian Herbaria. . Index Herbariorum: A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. The New York Botanical Garden . August 26, 2020.
Web site: Herbarium, Department of Environment and Genetics, La Trobe University . La Trobe University . December 9, 2023 . Providing access to 25,000 vascular plant specimens as well as a significant collection of algal specimens.
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). National Herbarium of Victoria Collections Summary. Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from: MEL Collections Summary (accessed 27 August 2020)
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). National Herbarium of New South Wales Collections Summary. Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from: NSW Collections Summary (accessed 27 August 2020)
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). Australian National Herbarium Collections Summary. Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from: CANB Collections Summary (accessed 27 August 2020)
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). State Herbarium of South Australia Collections Summary. Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from: AD Collections Summary (accessed 27 August 2020)
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). Queensland Herbarium Collections Summary. Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from: BRI Collections Summary (accessed 27 August 2020)
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). Western Australian Herbarium Collections Summary. Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from: PERTH Collections Summary (accessed 27 August 2020)
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research Collections Summary. Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from: CHR Collections Summary (accessed 23 November 2020)
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). Manaaki Whenua - Auckland War Memorial Museum Collections Summary. Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from: AK Collections Summary (accessed 23 November 2020)
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collections Summary. Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from: HO Collections Summary (accessed 23 November 2020)
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Collections Summary. Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from: WELT Collections Summary (accessed 23 November 2020)