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Australian National Herbarium

Atlas of Living Australia
Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (Associated with) Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANB) AVH data (Associated with)
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The Australian National Herbarium (Index Herbariorum code: CANB) provides a national focus for plant taxonomic and systematic endeavour and serves as the Commonwealth's prime resource for botanical information. Its collections support and authenticate the taxonomy used in genetic and ecological work undertaken by the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research and other botanical programs of the CSIRO as well as authenticating the living and image collections and the horticultural research programs of the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG). CANB comprises the herbarium component of CSIRO's National Research Collections. The collection was founded by the former CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, but several other collections have subsequently been incorporated. * The _Eucalyptus_ collections of CSIRO's Forest Research Institute (Index Herbariorum code: FRI) were incorporated into CANB in 1987. * In November 1993 an agreement was signed between CSIRO and the Director of National Parks (then the Australian Nature Conservation Agency) to form the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR; then the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CPBR). One part of the agreement was to amalgamate the Australian National Botanic Gardens' herbarium collections (formerly the Canberra Botanic Gardens; Index Herbariorum code: CBG) into CANB. The physical amalgamation of the majority of the two herbarium collections on the CSIRO's Black Mountain site took place in 1994. * The Australian National University's Chemistry Department herbarium collection (Index Herbariorum code: ANUC) was incorporated into CANB in 1996. The herbarium code CANB is used for the combined collections, although individual specimens originally from CBG will continue to be cited with CBG accession details. The approximately 250,000 CBG specimens are included in the total for CANB. The Australian National Herbarium's collection previously housed in Atherton (Index Herbarium code:QRS) now forms part of the Australian Tropical Herbarium in Cairns (Index Herbarium code: CNS).

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algae | angiosperms | dicots | entomology | fauna | fungi | gymnosperms | herbaria | herbarium | lichens | liverworts | living | microbes | monocots | mosses | plants | preserved | pteridophytes | taxonomic | texts | visual | wood |

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ACN 633 798 857