LibGuides: Botany: Glossary, herbaria, and biodiversity resources

Botanical Terms Glossary

Botanical Glossary
Botanical terms glossary from the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network.

Herbaria

Herbaria (singular herbarium) house preserved and catalogued plant specimens and associated data. They provide a permanent record of the occurrence of a species at a particular place and time, and are the primary resource for research on the classification and distribution of the world's flora. (Source: AVH)

Otago Regional Herbarium - Te māra Otaota o Otago (OTA)
Based at the University of Otago. The second largest herbarium in the South Island.
Aotearoa New Zealand Herbaria
An index of Aotearoa New Zealand's herbaria.
NZ National Herbarium Network
The NZNHN promotes the definition of the "National Herbarium" of New Zealand as being the aggregate holdings of all the herbaria in the Network.
AVH The Australasian Virtual Herbarium
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) is an online resource that provides dynamic access to the wealth of plant specimen data held by Australian and New Zealand herbaria.
Herbaria Index
A worldwide index of herbaria and associated staff.

Biodiversity online resources

Species observation and occurrence data, and online texts.

iNaturalist NZ Mātaki Taiao
The New Zealand site in the global iNaturalist network: global biological observation data.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Delivers primary data on biodiversity to aid natural resource management and policy.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Provides access to digitised texts related to biodiversity from 1450 to present.