Occurrence dataset Registered May 22, 2016
Auckland Museum Botany Collection
Published by Auckland War Memorial Museum
Ranatunga D • Hoare B
Description
The botanical collections of the Auckland Museum Herbarium were first established in 1870, about 18 years after the Museum was founded.The Museum's Herbarium holds over 350,000 botanical specimens, including 200,000 angiosperms, 5,000 gymnosperms, 30,000 pteridophytes, 26,000 mosses, 17,600 liverworts, 27,000 algae, 28,600 lichens, and 1,000 timber samples.
Geographic scope
- Description
New Zealand -179.14
- Latitude
- From -52.052 to -31.354
- Longitude
- From -172.266 to 153.984
Metrics
Contacts
- Organization
- Auckland Museum
- Position
- Collection Manager, Botany
- Roles
- Originator
Administrative point of contact
- Organization
- Auckland Museum
- Position
- Online Collections Data Analyst
- Roles
- Metadata author
GBIF registration
- Registration date
- May 22, 2016
- Metadata last modified
- June 27, 2025
- Publication date
- June 27, 2025
- Hosted by
- Auckland War Memorial Museum
- Installation
- Auckland War Memorial Museum
- Endpoints
- Darwin Core Archive
- EML
- Preferred identifier
- 10.15468/mnjkvv
- Alternative identifiers
Citation
Ranatunga D, Hoare B (2025). Auckland Museum Botany Collection. Version 1.101. Auckland War Memorial Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mnjkvv accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-08-18.