Tasmanian Herbarium
Private Bag 4
Hobart
Tasmania 7001
Australia
Fax: Fax: [61] 3/ 6226-2865
Web: https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/collections_and_research/tasmanian_herbarium
Email: ['G. Kantvilas, Curator', 'gkantvilas@tmag.tas.gov.au']
The Tasmanian Herbarium is responsible for the development, maintenance and management of the botanical collections of Tasmania. These preserved plant specimens are internationally recognised as the most comprehensive record of the Tasmanian flora in the world. The specimens represent the permanent material evidence of knowledge on what plants occur in Tasmania, their distribution in space and time, their variability and a wealth of other information. They are also the raw materials for further discovery and knowledge of Tasmania’s unique flora.
The founding collections of the Tasmanian Herbarium date from the early 1830s, and were made by early colonial amateur botanists such as Robert William Lawrence, Ronald Campbell Gunn and Joseph Milligan, who were residents and collected widely across the State.
There are also some older collections dating from the earliest European contacts with the island, notably the voyages of Captain James Cook in 1777, Captain Bruni D'Entrecasteaux in 1792 and 1793, Captain William Bligh in 1792 and the explorations of Robert Brown in 1803 and 1804.
The Herbarium is located on College Road, Sandy Bay within the University of Tasmania.