New Zealand National Herbarium Network

Herbarium Details: National Forestry Herbarium (NZFRI)

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Location

49 Sala Street, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, New Zealand

Background

Foundation

Founded in 1945 as the Forest Experiment Station Herbarium.

Status

Crown Research Institute

Functions

The National Forestry Herbarium provides information on the identity, taxonomy and ecology of woody plants in New Zealand, especially those significant to forestry. It also has a regional role specialising in the indigenous and adventive flora of the Bay of Plenty and central North Island, New Zealand.

Scope of Collections

The focus is on vascular plants of native and exotic forests, and there are extensive collections of conifers, eucalypts and other plantation species, including specimens of forest trees from Australia, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and Mexico. There is a significant component from other vegetation types as well, particularly from the central North Island, and an increasing number of ornamental trees and shrubs.

Number of Collections

At January 2007, just over 25,000 specimens:

Computerisation

All accessions are recorded on the National Forest Herbarium Database, a MS SQL database with a MS Access interface.

Important collections

Mexican pines collected by H. V. Hinds & E. Larsen; Australian eucalypts collected by M. D. Wilcox; C. E. Ecroyd

Ancillary Collections

A wood sample collection of approximately 8,500 specimens, which includes duplicates from Peru and Mexico (L. Williams), Brazil (Krukoff), Ecuador (M. Acosta-Solis), and U.S.A. (H. H. Smith). Contact: Lloyd Donaldson

Staff and Research

Curator: Chris Ecroyd, chris.ecroyd@ensisjv.com : Eucalypts, gymnosperms

Assistant Curator: Elizabeth Miller, elizabeth.miller@ensisjv.com

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