Australian Tropical Herbarium

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The Australian Tropical Herbarium is located in Cairns and brings together herbarium specimens from the Australian National Herbarium previously housed in Atherton, Queensland Herbarium specimens previously housed in Mareeba and the James Cook University Herbarium collection from Townsville.

The Australian Tropical Herbarium is a joint venture between James Cook University (JCU), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Director of National Parks (DNP), the Queensland Department of State Development, Trade and Innovation and Queensland's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

It is located in the Australian Tropical Forest Institute building at James Cook University's Cairns campus, hosting a research team to manage a scientific herbarium collection, undertake taxonomic and systematic research and provide botanical information from the collection to partners, stakeholders and clients, as well as to visiting international researchers.

The Australian Tropical Herbarium's collection comprises more than 160,000 plant specimens.