**Code**: [CANB](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124225) **Organization**: Australian National Herbarium **Division**: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research **Location**: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia **Total number of specimens**: 1204426 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1930 **Taxonomic coverage**: All groups; large cryptogam collection; voucher collections for living plants in the Australian National Botanic Gardens **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide, especially Australia, New Guinea, and the southwestern Pacific **Incorporated herbaria**: CBG (250 000 specimens) in 1993, FRI <Eucalyptus>, Myrtaceae, in 1987, ANUC (30 000 specimens) in 1996. **Important collectors**: Y. Asahina, L. J. Brass, M. I. H. Brooker, R. Brown, N. T. Burbidge, C. E. Carr, L. A. Craven, J. R. Croft, A. Dietrich, Hj. Eichler, J. A. Elix, H. Flecker, G. Follmann, E. Gauba, C. H. Gittins, M. Gray, T. G. Hartley, E. E. Henty, R. D. Hoogland, M. R. Jacobs, M. Lazarides, A. H. S. Lucas, C. W. E. Moore, T. H. Nash III, E. Phillips, R. Pullen, R. Schodde, H. Streimann, J. S. Womersley **Notes**: Formerly "Herbarium Australiense." United with CBG (250 000 specimens) in 1993 under joint management. Specimens originally from CBG will continue to be cited as CBG. Administratively responsible for QRS (now part of CNS). Non-angiosperms are stored in a different building, at -35.278329, 149.108841. CANB is jointly administered by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) andthe Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2021-06-24 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.