National Herbarium of Tanzania
Arusha
Tanzania
Fax: +255 027 250 8217
Efrem-Fred A. Njau, Director of Technical Services and Curator
Email: efrednjau@yahoo.co.uk
The National Herbarium of Tanzania (NHT) is a division of the Technical Services Department of Tropical Pesticides Research Institute (TPRI). NHT was established under the TPRI Act of 1979 with the mandate of cataloguing the entire flora of Tanzania and recording the resultant information for easy access by the general public and other institutions. NHT’s vision is to conserve and preserve plant diversity and promote the sustainable utilization of plants. To this end, NHT undertakes many activities, some of which are collecting and curating botanical specimens, offering courses on herbarium techniques, producing plant checklists and publications, and building a computerized database of local plants. All these efforts are in furtherance of NHT’s overarching objectives, which include botanical and other plant-related research, collecting and identifying specimens of locally occurring plants, preserving collected specimens in permanent reference collections, advising individuals, institutions, and government on utilization and conservation issues, and strengthening local and international collaboration in botanical activities.
Materials of Special Interest
- Medicinal Plants
- Fodder Plants
- Biopesticides
- Rare and Endemic Plants