Description

Centre for botanical research and Information on the Queensland flora, plant communities and ecology.

Queensland Herbarium (Mareeba), MBA was a regional station of BRI, the holdings of which have been transferred to Australian Tropical Herbarium (CNS). All MBA specimens are duplicated at BRI.

Statistics taken (June 2010) from:

http://www.chah.gov.au/chah/resources/herbaria/bri.html (CHAH updated June 2010)

The collection was established in 1855 and continues to the present.

Taxonomic range

Queensland flora - plants, algae, lichens and fungi.

Kingdoms covered include: Fungi and Plantae.

Geographic range

Mainly Queensland, Papua New Guinea and Pacific region, other Australian States, SE Asia.

Australian states covered include: Queensland.

Number of specimens in the collection

The estimated number of specimens in the Queensland Herbarium is 779,455.

Of these 779,455 are databased. This represents 100.0 % of the collection.

Click the Records & Statistics tab to access those database records that are available through the atlas.

Sub-collections

The Queensland Herbarium contains these significant collections:

• Duplicates from Banks and Solander collections in 1770 - total c.100.
• Collections of F.M. Bailey, L.J. Brass and earlier explorers
• J.G. Tracey
• L.J. Webb
• L.J. Brass
• G.N. Bationoff
• J.R. Clarkson
• A.R. Bean
• S.L. Everist
• P.I. Forster
• J.F. Shirley
• BRIU 1992 Angiosperm transfer to BRI - University of Queensland Herbarium (BRIU) transferred Angiosperms to BRI
• Prints, slides, digital images, air photographs
• BRIU 1992 Lichen, Algae transfer to BRI - University of Queensland Herbarium (BRIU) transferred Lichens, Algae to BRI
• Carpological, spirit, wood
• A.R. Bean
• Australian Institute of Marine Science Herbarium (AIMS) transfer to BRI - 2000 specimens transferred to BRI
• C.T. White
• S.F. Kajewski
• S.T. Blake
• A.B. Cribb - algal collection
• A.B. Cribb
• L.S. Smith
• J.F. Bailey

last updated: 2010-10-12 11:52:44.0