Auckland Museum Botany Collection

Project name: Trinational Monarch Knowledge Network

Dataset summary : 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.