Resources of Australian Herbaria

Compiled by K.J.Cowley & J.G.West on behalf of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH)

HERBARIUM CODE:

DAR

CITES number:

AU 073

HERBARIUM NAME:

New South Wales Plant Pathology Herbarium

DEPARTMENT / ORGANISATION:

NSW Agriculture

CONTACT DETAILS
Street Address:

Forest Road

Postal Address:

as above

City:

Orange

State:

NSW

Postcode:

2800

Telephone:

(02) 6391 3800

Facsimile:

(02) 6391 3899

Email:

michael.priest@dpi.nsw.gov.au

Location:

Orange Agricultural Institute

AUTHORITY/STATUS:

State Government

ACCESS:

to recognised scientific researchers only

ASSOCIATED LIVING COLLECTION:

living fungal, bacterial and plant virus culture collection (5,000 isolates)

FOUNDATION:

1890

FUNCTIONS:

To record all plant diseases of NSW -all types including fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes

GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE:

Australia, particularly NSW

TAXONOMIC SCOPE:

All fungal groups

NUMBER OF SPECIMENS:

Total

Types

Angiosperms

-

-

Dicots

-

-

Monocots

-

-

Gymnosperms

-

-

Pteridophytes

-

-

Mosses

-

-

Liverworts

-

-

Lichens

-

-

Fungi

112,000

-

Algae

-

-

Fossils

-

-

Wood Samples

-

-

Bacteria

3500

-

Viruses

2000

-

Nematodes

2000

-

Accessioned

85000

-

Unaccessioned

34,500

-

Number of Types

2000

Status:

-

Database Name:

NRECS

Database Description:

Texpress database includes all specimen data

Number of Specimen Records:

85,000

Access:

internal only

Email and Internet:

-

Significant Historical Collections:

L.R. Fraser, H.A. Dade, E. Cheel, J.B. Cleland, Sydow

Significant Special Collections:

ADW, I. Parbery (Meliolales )

Ancillary Collections:

Overseas exsiccati, Watercolour Illustrations of Plant Diseases (Margaret Senior) and Higher Fungi (Kay Smith)

Photographic Collections:

Yes

Botanical Library:

Yes

Director:

-

Curator:

Michael Priest

Manager:

-

Chief Botanist:

-

Taxonomists:

1

Ecologists/Evolutionary Biologists:

-

Technical Officers:

2

Volunteers:

-

Associates:

3 (J. Walker, J. Simpson, C. Grgurinovic : Hon. Research Associates)

Taxonomic:

Revision of Pisolithus, fungi associated with  Australian native flora

Non-Taxonomic:

-

Relating to the Collection:

-

Relating to the Herbarium:

-

Notes:

Protected under Agricultural Scientific Collections Trust Act 1983 (NSW). Also major component of National Collection of Plant Pathogens which includes herbs VPRI and BRIP. Member of World Federation of Culture Collections (No. 365).