**Code**: [PERTH](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124395) **Organization**: Western Australian Herbarium **Division**: Biodiversity and Conservation Science **Department**: Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions **Location**: Kensington, Western Australia, Australia **Total number of specimens**: 843021 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1929 **Taxonomic coverage**: All groups **Geographic coverage**: Western Australia **Incorporated herbaria**: Western Australian Museum botanical collections, most vascular plants, algae and all fungi of UWA, fungi of Western Australian Department of Agriculture and CSIRO Mycology Herbarium, algae of MURU and CSIRO, Herbarium Lowerianum **Important collectors**: R. Brown, C. R. P. Andrews, W. E. Blackall, L. Diels, W. V. Fitzgerald, C. A. Gardner, A. S. George, B. T. Goadby, A. Morrison, E. Pritzel, R. D. Royce **Notes**: The Western Australian Herbarium stands on Wadjuk Country. Western Australian Herbarium transferred from Western Australian Department of Agriculture in1988 to Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management, and is now part of an amalgamated Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, which includes the former Department of Parks and Wildlife. Additional web site: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au Please note that PERTH has visitation closures regularly scheduled for March, October and the Christmas-New Year period. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2023-06-26 > [!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.