Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) is an association of the leaders of

herbaria A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

in Australia and New Zealand. It is governed by a constitution. It endorses the taxonomy and nomenclature of the

Australian Plant Census The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national government Integrated Biodiversity Information Sys ...

,Vascular Plants Australian Plant Census (APC)
/ref> which is the source for accepted names of species and, in particular, for accepted names of Australasian species. It supports the

Australian Plant Name Index The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names. It includes bibliographic and typification details, informati ...

.Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
/ref> CHAH is incorporated in the A.C.T. and is an Australian registered business with ABN 31 496 409 479. Membership of CHAH consists of the heads of the following herbaria: * State Herbarium of South Australia, Adelaide *

Queensland Herbarium The Queensland Herbarium (Index Herbariorum code: BRI) is situated at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is part of Queensland's Department of Environment and Science. It is responsible for disc ...

, Brisbane * Australian National Herbarium, Canberra * Australian Tropical Herbarium, Cairns * Tasmanian Herbarium, Hobart *

National Herbarium of Victoria The National Herbarium of Victoria (Index Herbariorum code: MEL) is one of Australia's earliest herbaria and the oldest scientific institution in Victoria. Its 1.56 million specimens of preserved plants, fungi and algae—collectively known ...

, Melbourne * National Herbarium of New South Wales, Sydney * Northern Territory Herbarium, Darwin *

Western Australian Herbarium The Western Australian Herbarium is the state Herbarium, situated in Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It houses a collection of more than 845,000 dried specimens of plants, algae, bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts), lichens, fu ...

, Perth * Allan Herbarium, Christchurch, NZ * Te Papa Herbaria, Wellington, NZ * Auckland Museum Herbarium There are a further two council members: one to represent the constituent collections of the National Collection of Fungi;
and another to represent Australian university herbaria. The council also invites observers to participate. there are observers from: * Papua New Guinea National Herbarium (LAE) * Council of Heads of Australian Fauna Collections (CHAFC) * Council of Australian Museum Directors (CAMD) * Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) * Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens (CHABG)

References

External links

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, ANBG

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH), Atlas of Living Australia.
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