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Northern Territory Herbarium (Darwin)

Atlas of Living Australia
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (Associated with) Northern Territory Herbarium (DNA) AVH data (Associated with)
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The Northern Territory Herbarium (Darwin & Alice Springs) provides conservation and plant taxonomic advice to the community. The collection records the floristic diversity of native and introduced plants in the Northern Territory with over 4,300 species of native plants, 702 endemic and over 400 introduced. While the Northern Territory flora is primarily Australian in origin and occurrence, it naturally includes many species also found in nearby New Guinea, Timor-Leste and eastern Indonesia. The Northern Territory Herbarium maintains over 270,000 vascular plant specimens primarily from across northern and central Australia, but also Timor and Wetar. The Northern Territory Herbarium in Alice Springs (NT) was founded in 1954, with a separate collection in Darwin (DNA) in late 1966. In 1989 the bulk of the collections in Alice Springs were shifted to Palmerston and combined with the Darwin collection. The collection in Alice Springs, still referred to as NT, remains as a reference and research collection for the arid zone of the Northern Territory.

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

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ACN 633 798 857