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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2012-07-10 human Christine Moje and Helen Cohn updated 2025-12-23 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005215b.htm corporateBody Tasmanian Herbarium AACR2 1976 Start Place Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Location College Road, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania Conservation or Environment Collection Management Herbarium Plant Science Taxonomic botany The Tasmanian Herbarium is the state's collection of preserved botanical specimens. Administratively it is part of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. It's principal function is the development, management,, maintenance and research on these collections. Geographically the Herbarium focuses on Tasmania, but does include material from Australia and the southern hemisphere in general. The earliest specimens date from c.1830. Research undertaken by Herbarium staff and research associates includes: the classification and relationships of the Tasmanian flora; ecology and distribution of weeds; bryophytes and lichens as monitors of forest health; and the conservation status of Tasmania's lichens. The Herbarium is a member of the Council of the Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), a collaborative association of Australia's principal herbaria, and contributes specimen information Australia's Virtual Herbarium, an initiative of CHAH. Major collections held by the Herbarium include those of Ronald Gunn, Leonard Rodway, Geoffrey Bratt (lichens) and William Weymouth (bryophytes); Winifred Curtis, Dennis Morris and Janet Somerville (which underpinned the preparation of The student's flora of Tasmania); Rodney Seppelt (Antrctic and Subantarctic); and the lichen, bryophyte and subantarctic vascular plant collection which was transferred from the Australian Antarctic Division.

The Tasmanian Herbarium was formally established in 1976 with the amalgamation of herbaria of the Tasmanian Museum (which had at various times been under the management of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens) and the University of Tasmania. The Museum's collections were started by Leonard Rodway, Tasmanian Government Botanist, in 1928: the Museum was at that time located in the Botanical Gardens. The University's herbarium was started as a teaching herbarium, while the Museum's herbarium was transferred to the University on long-term loan during Winifred Curtis's tenure as curator. In 1950 the Museum and Botanical Gardens were administratively separated. The Tasmanian Herbarium is now administratively part of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, and located on the Sandy Bay campus of the University of Tasmania.

Honorary Curators of the herbarium collections, held variously at the Museum, the Botanic Gardens and the University, were:
Leonard Rodway 1928 - 1932;
Olive Rodway 1932 - 1941;
Winifred Curtis (part-time) 1941 - 1946;
Janet Somerville 1957 - 1963.

 Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (1972 - ) Australasian Virtual Herbarium (c. 2001 - ) Seppelt, Rodney (Rod)

Over 30,000 of Seppelt's Antarctic and Subantarctic specimens are in the Herbarium

 Gray, Alan Maurice (1943 - )

Contributor, Flora of Tasmania Online

 Moscal, Antonius Mircea (Tony) (1928 - 2017)

Over 31,000 specimens are in the Herbarium

 Weymouth, William Anderson (1841 - 1928)

The Herbarium holds many of Weymouth's collections

 Morris, Dennis Ivor (1924 - 2005)

Honorary Botanist 1985 - ?2005; the Herbarium holds over 12,500 of Morris's specimens

 Somerville, Janet (1887 - 1969)

Honorary Curator 1957 - 1863; the Herbarium holds more than 2,800 specimens collected by Somerville

 Bratt, Geoffrey (1931 - 1977)

Bratt's collection of over 15,000 specimens was bequeathed to the Herbarium

 Antarctic Division, Commonwealth of Australia (1949 - )

The Division's lichen, bryophyte and subantarctic vascular plant collections have been transferred to the Herbarium

 Curtis, Winifred (1905 - 2005)

Keeper (part-time) 1941 - 1946; Curtis's collections were deposited in the Herbarium

 Rodway, Leonard (1853 - 1936)

Honorary Curator 1828 - 1932; Rodway's plant collections are in the Herbarium

 Gunn, Ronald Campbell (1808 - 1881)

The Herbarium holds a collection of Gunn's specimens

 Orchard, Anthony (Tony) (1946 - )

Curator 1978 - 1992

 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (1863 - )

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 'Tasmanian Herbarium', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Tasmanian Herbarium Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Resources of Australian Herbaria: a Guide to Herbaria Located in Australia Cowley, K. J.; West, J. G Resources of Australian Herbaria: a Guide to Herbaria Located in Australia Canberra Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research 1999 Resource: Resources of Australian Herbaria [online] Cowley, K. J.; West, J. G Resources of Australian Herbaria [online] Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research 2002