**Code**: [NSW](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125814)
**Organization**: Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust
**Division**: Science, Education and Conservation
**Department**: Australian Institute of Botanical Science
**Location**: Mount Annan, New South Wales, Australia
**Total number of specimens**: 1400000
**Current status**: Active
**Date founded**: 1896
**Taxonomic coverage**: All groups; limited fungal collections
**Geographic coverage**: Worldwide, with emphasis on Australia, especially New South Wales
**Incorporated herbaria**: Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, NSWF wood (2010), UNSW Australian mosses
**Important collectors**: R. T. Baker, J. Banks, W. Bäuerlen, E. Betche, W. F. Blakely, J. L. Boorman, G. Caley, A. Cunningham, E. F. Constable, A. D. E. Elmer, W. V. Fitzgerald, W. H. Harvey, L. A. S. Johnson, C. King, A. H. S. Lucas, J. H. Maiden, E. D. Merrill, G. I. Playfair, F. A. Rodway, F. R. R. Schlechter, D. Solander, J. W. Vickery, W. W. Watts, T. Whitelegge
**Notes**: NSW fungi have been transferred to the New South Wales Plant Pathology Herbarium (DAR); The Plant Disease Diagnostic Unit contains microfungal and plant pathology collections.
In June 2018, the NSW Government announced a $60 million investment for a new facility in Western Sydney at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan. This project has seen a purpose-built, state-of-the-art facility created to protect our nationally and internationally significant collection, recently valued at $300 million. The herbarium collection was moved here in 2022.
A mass digitization project was undertaken between 2019 and 2021 and has produced more than one million high resolution images of the botanical collections, most of which are publically available.
**Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2022-08-01
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