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A specimen collection form is important because it has all the information about a plant specimen that can be used to track time and place of different species and how that changes over time

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Based on the collection form used by botanists and researchers in the State Herbarium, this template will allow your class to explore, document and collect plant specimens in your own community

The PDF includes two versions of the form. Please choose the one that is most suitable for your cohort

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Classroom Herbarium SPECIMEN COLLECTION FORM

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Dzivula Gube
Marine Conservationist & Underwater Photographer, Kenya

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iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals,
share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

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A plant press is used to remove moisture from the physical structure of a plant specimen so that the specimen will last long term in a collection

We use these specimens for research and identification, sometimes more than 100 years after it was pressed!

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The State Herbarium of South Australia is the centre for knowledge and information on South Australia’s native and naturalised plants, algae, fungi and lichens

We have a collection of over one million (and growing!) dried herbarium specimens

Our research staff and associates bring scientific methods, including cutting-edge technologies in molecular biology and microscopy, to help research a wide range of botanical areas (e.g. genes, populations, species, higher taxa, communities and ecosystems)

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We hope you enjoy our resources on creating your very own classroom herbarium

We would love to see you and your students in the Gardens to get learning experience outside of the classroom!

If you would like to book an educator led or self-guided experience at any of our three sites, please follow the link above, or contact a member of our education team at DEWBGSchools@sa.gov.au

Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium

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18 July 2023

Have you ever driven past the beautiful heritage-listed Goodman Building when passing the Garden on Hackney Road? Did you know this building was formerly the base for the Municipal Tramways Trust but now serves as the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium administration building.

07 June 2023

World Ocean Day is an annual celebration held on 8 June which unites and rallies the world to protect and restore our blue planet. In our latest blog, State Herbarium's Jem Barratt takes a deep dive into how its scientific work focusing on seagrasses and seaweed helps with the restoration and preservation of our ocean ecosystems.

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The Botanic Gardens of South Australia comprises three beautiful public gardens have provided visitors with a range of cultural, recreational, educational and scientific facilities for over 160 years.

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A simple and easy-to-use key to help identify species from seeds using physical features such as seed size, colour, shape, texture and appendages.

For each seed feature, select from the drop down list the one that best match the seed you wish to identify. Use a magnifying glass if available to get a closer look at your seed. If you are not sure of any of the features, select unknown.

The result will not return a perfect match of your seed but will return a number of species that best match what you selected from the list of features. The resulted species list may not match your seed because it has not been entered into the database or your seed maybe from an introducted species.

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Seeds of South Australia - SeedKey Search

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Identification Factsheets of the
Marine Benthic Flora (Algae)
of Southern Australia

Author: R.N. Baldock (Bob)
© R.N. Baldock 2010-2019
These factsheets have been developed to aid in the identification of species from the rich algal diversity of our southern Australian coasts. Through the personal efforts of Emeritus Professor H.B.S. Womersley and those of his many students and helpers, some 90,000 algal specimens have been added to the main collection in the State Herbarium of South Australia. Added to this are 20,000 prepared microscope slides of algal structures essential in species identification.

An overview of the algae factsheets is contained in the introduction.

As an Honorary Associate of The State Herbarium of South Australia, Bob has spent many years photographing the species and slides to provide this rich visual experience.

Marine Indicator Species of Southern Australian Reefs

I. Calcareous Flat Reefs in Temperate Waters of Moderate Wave Action

II. Reefs of Resistant Crystalline Rocks in Rough Temperate Waters

III. Calcareous Reefs of Dune-Rock (aeolianite) in Rough Cold-Temperate Waters

IV. Calcareous Reefs and Deep Sediments in S Australian Gulfs

Pictured Keys of Common Southern Australian Marine Plants

Southern Australian Groups at a glance

Algal intimates

Blue green algae

Marine algal crusts, stains, scums and scales

Seagrass epiphytes

Acrotylaceae

Anotrichium

Areschougiaceae

Austrophyllis and Callophyllis

Bead-like red algae

Bonnemaisoniaceae

Callophycus

Champiaceae

Cystocloniaceae

Delesseriaceae

Dicranemataceae

Dictyomenia

Dumontiaceae

Gelidiaceae

Gigartinaceae

Gracilariaceae

Griffithsia

Halymeniaceae

Hildenbrandia

Hypneaceae

Kallymenia

Lomentariaceae

Nemastomataceae

Peyssonneliaceae

Phacelocarpus

Phyllophoraceae

Polysiphonia

Porphyra and Pyropia

Rhodymeniaceae

Cystophora

Cystophora look alikes

Dictyotaceae

Sargassum look alikes

Chaetomorpha

Cladophora species group IIIA

Cladophora species group IIIB

Cladophora species group II

Cladophora species group I

Rhizoclonium

Rhodophyta (red algae)

Acanthophora dendroides

Acrosorium ciliolatum

Acrosorium minus

Acrosymphyton taylorii

Acrotylus australis

Adelophycus corneus

Aeodes nitidissima

Ahnfeltiopsis fastigiata

Ahnfeltiopsis humilis

Amansia mamillaris

Amphiplexia hymenocladioides

Amphiplexia racemosa

Anotrichium crinitum

Anotrichium elongatum

Anotrichium licmophorum

Anotrichium subtile

Anotrichium tenue

Anotrichium towinna

Antithamnion diminuatum

Antithamnion uniramosum

Antithamnioniella glandifera

Antrocentrum nigrescens

Apoglossum spathulatum

Areschougia

Areschougia congesta

Areschougia ligulata

Areschougia stuartii

Asparagopsis armata

Asparagopsis taxiformis

Audouinella blumii

Audouinella nakamurae

Austroclonium charoides

Austrophyllis alcicornis

Austrophyllis harveyana

Bangia atropurpurea atropurpurea

Bangia atropurpurea subsp. brevisegmenta

Bead-like red algae

Betaphycus speciosum

Bonnemaisonia australis

Bonnemaisonia spinescens

Bornetia binderiana

Bornetia tenuis

Botryocladia sonderi

Botryoglossum cartilagineum

Calliblepharis planicaulis

Callithamnion circinnatum

Callithamnion confertum

Callithamnion pinnatum

Callithamnion propebyssoides

Callophycus costatus

Callophycus dorsifera

Callophycus harveyanus

Callophycus laxus

Callophycus oppositifolius

Callophyllis cervicornis

Callophyllis lambertii

Callophyllis rangiferina

Caloglossa leprieurii

Caloglossa ogasawaraensis

Capreolia implexa

Carpopeltis elata

Carpopeltis phyllophora

Carpopeltis spongiiplexa

Catenella nipae

Cephalocystis furcellata

Ceramium cupulatum

Ceramium wilsonii

Chamaethamnion schizandra

Champia affinis

Champia insignis

Champia parvula

Champia viridis

Champia zostericola

Champiocolax lobata

Chauviniella coriifolia

Chondria hieroglyphica

Chondria lanceolata

Chondria subsecunda

Chylocladia grandis

Cirrulicarpus nanus

Cirrulicarpus polycoelioides

Claudea elegans

Claviclonium ovatum

Coelarthrum cliftonii

Coelarthrum opuntia

Coeloclonium debile

Cottoniella fusiformis

Craspedocarpus blepharicarpus

Craspedocarpus ramentaceus

Craspedocarpus tenuifolius

Craspedocarpus venosus

Crassilingua marginifera

Crouania brunyana

Cryptonemia digitata

Cryptonemia kallymenioides

Cryptonemia nitophylloides

Cryptonemia undulata

Cryptonemia wilsonii

Curdiea angustata

Curdiea crassa

Curdiea obesa

Dasya atactica

Dasya hapalathrix

Dasya tenuis

Dasyphloea insignis

Dasythamniella superbiens

Delisea elegans

Delisea hypneoides

Delisea plumosa

Delisea pulchra

Dichotomaria australis

Dichotomaria obtusata

Dichotomaria spathulata (Galaxaura marginata)

Dicranema cincinnalis

Dicranema revolutum

Dicroglossum crispatulum

Doxodasya hirta

Dudresnaya australis

Episporium centroceratis

Erythroclonium angustatum

Erythroclonium muelleri

Erythroclonium sedoides

Erythroclonium sonderi

Erythronaema ceramioides

Erythronema ceramioides

Erythrotrichia ligulata

Erythrymenia minuta

Faucheopsis coronata

Ganonema codii

Ganonema farinosum

Gelidiella antipai

Gelidiella ramellosa

Gelidium asperum

Gelidium australe

Gelidium crinale

Gelinaria ulvoidea

Gibsmithia womersleyi

Gigartina brachiata

Gigartina densa

Gigartina disticha

Gigartina muelleriana

Gigartina pinnata

Gigartina recurva

Gigartina sonderi

Gigartina wehliae

Glaphyrymenia pustulosa

Gloiocladia australis

Gloiocladia fruticulosa

Gloiocladia halymenioides

Gloiocladia polycladia

Gloiophloea rosea

Gloiophloea scinaioides

Gloiophyllis barkeriae

Gloiosaccion brownii

Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis

Grateloupia intestinalis

Grateloupia ovata

Grateloupia subpectinata

Griffithsia balara

Griffithsia crassiuscula

Griffithsia elegans

Griffithsia grandis

Griffithsia gunniana

Griffithsia monilis

Griffithsia ovalis

Griffithsia pilalyea

Griffithsia pulvinata

Griffithsia teges

Gymnogongrus crenulatus

Gymnogongrus griffithsieae

Gymnothamnion nigrescens

Halicnide similans

Halopeltis australis

Halopeltis cuneata

Halopeltis cuneata (halymenioides)

Halopeltis verrucosa

Halymenia floresia

Halymenia kraftii

Halymenia muelleri

Halymenia plana

Haraldia australica

Haraldiophyllum erosum

Haraldiophyllum nottii

Helminthocladia australis

Helminthocladia beaugleholei

Helminthocladia densa

Helminthocladia dotyi

Helminthora australis

Helminthora lindaueri

Hemineura frondosa

Hennedya crispa

Heterodoxia denticulata

Heterostroma nereidiis

Heterothamnion platythalieae

Heterothamnion sessile

Hildenbrandia crouaniorum

Hildenbrandia lecannellieri

Hildenbrandia patula

Hildenbrandia rubra

Hirsutithallia abaxialis

Hormophora australasica

Hymenena affinis

Hymenena curdieana

Hymenena endiviaefolia

Hymenena multipartita

Hymenocladia chondricola

Hymenocladia divaricata

Hymenocladia filiformis

Hymenocladia usnea

Hypnea charoides

Hypnea filiformis

Hypnea ramentacea

Hypnea valentiae

Hypoglossum armatum

Hypoglossum dendroides

Hypoglossum harveyanum

Hypoglossum harveyanum var fimbriatum

Hypoglossum heterocystideum

Hypoglossum protendens

Hypoglossum revolutum

Interthamnion attenuatum

Kallymenia cribrogloea

Kallymenia cribrosa

Kallymenia rubra

Kallymenia spinosa

Kallymenia tasmanica

Kraftia dichotoma

Laurencia distichophylla

Leptophyllis conferta

Leptosomia rosea

Liagora harveyana

Liagora wilsoniana

Lomentaria australis

Lomentaria monochlamydea

Lomentaria pyramidalis

Lophosiphonia obscura

Martensia australis

Melanema dumosum

Melanthalia abscissa

Melanthalia concinna

Melanthalia obtusata

Micropeuce proxima

Micropeuce sarcocaulon

Mychodea acanthymenia

Mychodea acicularis

Mychodea australis

Mychodea carnosa

Mychodea disticha

Mychodea gracilaria

Mychodea hamata

Mychodea marginifera

Mychodea pusilla

Mychodea ramulosa

Mychodea spinulifera

Myriogramme cartilaginea

Myriogramme gunniana

Nanopera merrifieldiae

Nemalion helmithoides

Nitophyllum crispum

Nitophyllum fallax

Nitophyllum pulchellum

Nitospinosa littledipensis

Nitospinosa pristoidea

Nitospinosa tasmanica

Nizymenia australis

Nizymenia conferta

Nizymenia furcata

Nothogenia fastigiata

Pachymenia orbicularis

Peltasta australis

Peyssonnelia boudouresquei

Peyssonnelia capensis

Peyssonnelia dubyi

Peyssonnelia foliosa

Peyssonnelia inamoena

Peyssonnelia novae-hollandiae

Peyssonnelia splendens

Phitymophora amansioides

Phitymophora hypoglossum

Phycodrys australasica

Pityophycos tasmanica

Placophora binderi

Platoma australicum

Platoma foliosum

Platyclinia crenulata

Platyclinia stipitata

Pollexfenia crispata

Pollexfenia lobata

Pollexfenia pedicellata

Polycoelia laciniata

Polyopes constrictus

Polyopes tasmanicus

Polyopes tenuis

Polysiphonia brevisegmenta

Polysiphonia haplodasyae

Polysiphonia propagulifera

Polysiphonia teges

Porphyra columbina

Porphyra lucasii

Porphyra woolhousiae

Porphyridium purpureum

Predaea huismanii

Pterocladia lucida

Pterocladia rectangularis

Pterocladiella (Pterocladia) capillacea

Pterocladiella minima

Pterothamnion flexile

Ptilocladia gracilis

Ptilonia australasica

Ptilonia subulifera

Ptilophora prolifera

Rhabdonia clavigera

Rhabdonia coccinea

Rhabdonia verticillata

Rhipidothamnion secundum

Rhodoglossum gigartinoides

Rhodopeltis australis

Rhodophyllis membranacea

Rhodophyllis multipartita

Rhodophyllis volans

Rhodymenia cuneata

Rhodymenia foliifera

Rhodymenia halymeniodes

Rhodymenia leptophylla

Rhodymenia obtusa

Rhodymenia prolificans

Rhodymenia stenoglossa

Rhodymeniocolax austrina

Robea costata

Sarcodia marginata

Sarconema filiforme

Sarcothalia crassifolia

Sarcothalia insidiosa

Sarcothalia radula

Scageliopsis patens

Schizoseris bombayensis

Schizoseris hymenena

Schizoseris perriniae

Schizoseris tasmanica

Schizymenia dubyi

Schottera nicaeensis

Scinaia acuta

Scinaia arborealis

Scinaia proliferata

Scinaia tsinglanensis

Semnocarpa corynephora

Semnocarpa minuta

Solieria robusta

Solieria tenera

Sonderopelta coriacea

Stenogramme interrupta

Stenogramme leptophylla

Stictosporum nitophylloides

Sympodophyllum reinboldii

Taenioma perpusillum

Thamnoclonium dichotomum

Thamnophyllis lacerata

Tikvahiella candida

Tolypiocladia penningtonensis

Trematocarpus affinis

Trematocarpus concinnus

Tsengia comosa

Tsengia feredayae

Tsengia laingii

Tylocolax microcarpus

Tylotus obtusatus

Webervanbossea kaliformis

Webervanbossea splachnoides

Webervanbossea tasmanensis

Womersleya monanthos

Zymurgia chondriopsidea

Brown algae

Acrotrichium amphibolis

Chlanidophora microphylla

Colpomenia ecuticulata

Dictyopteris acrostichoides

Dictyopteris australis

Dictyopteris gracilis

Dictyopteris muelleri

Dictyopteris nigricans

Dictyota alternifida

Dictyota dichotoma

Dictyota diemensis

Dictyota fenestrata

Dictyota furcellata

Dictyota naevosa

Dictyota radicans (prolifera)

Dilophus angustus

Dilophus crinitus

Dilophus fastigiatus

Dilophus gunnianus

Dilophus marginatus

Dilophus robustus

Dilophus tener

Discosporangium mesarthrocarpum

Distromium flabellatum

Distromium multifidum

Elachista claytoniae

Exallosorus olsenii

Glossophora nigricans

Gononema ramosum

Halothrix ephemeralis

Hapalospongidion capitatum

Homoeostrichus canaliculatus

Homoeostrichus sinclairii

Kuetzingiella species

Lobophora variegata

Lobospira bicuspidata

Mesogloiopsis tasmanica

Myriactula caespitosa

Myriactula filiformis

Myrionema latipilosum

Nereia lophoclada

Pachydictyon paniculatum

Pachydictyon polycladum

Padina elegans

Padina fraseri

Padina gymnospora

Padina sanctae-crucis

Papenfussiella extensa

Sargassum kendrickii

Scoresbyella profunda

Spatoglossum australasicum

Sphacelaria chorizocarpa

Sphacelaria multiplex

Sphacelaria spuria

Sphacella subtilissima

Sporochnema tomentosum

Strepsithalia aemula

Strepsithalia leathesiae

Taonia australasica

Zonaria angustata

Zonaria crenata

Zonaria spiralis

Zonaria turneriana

Green algae

Acetabularia calyculus

Acetabularia peniculus

Apjohnia laetevirens

Avrainvillea clavatiramea

Blidingia marginata

Blidingia minima

Bryopsis australis

Bryopsis foliosa

Bryopsis gemellipara

Bryopsis macraildii

Bryopsis minor

Bryopsis plumosa

Bryopsis vestita

Callipsygma wilsonis

Caulerpa alternans

Caulerpa brownii

Caulerpa cactoides

Caulerpa cliftonii

Caulerpa distichophylla

Caulerpa ellistoniae

Caulerpa flexilis

Caulerpa hedleyi

Caulerpa hodgkinsoniae

Caulerpa longifolia

Caulerpa obscura

Caulerpa papillosa

Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea

Caulerpa remotifolia

Caulerpa scalpelliformis

Caulerpa sedoides

Caulerpa simpliciuscula

Caulerpa taxifolia

Caulerpa trifaria

Caulerpa vesiculifera

Chaetomorpha aerea

Chaetomorpha billardieri

Chaetomorpha capillaris

Chaetomorpha coliformis

Chaetomorpha indica

Chaetomorpha linum

Chaetomorpha melagonium

Chaetomorpha valida

Chlorodesmis baculifera

Cladophora aegagropiloidea

Cladophora rhizoclonioidea

Cladophoropsis herpestica

Cladophoropsis magna

Cladophoropsis membranacea

Codium apiculatum

Codium australicum

Codium capitulatum

Codium dimorphum

Codium duthieae

Codium fragile

Codium galeatum

Codium harveyi

Codium laminarioides

Codium lucasii

Codium mamillosum

Codium muelleri

Codium perriniae

Codium pomoides

Codium silvae

Codium spinescens

Codium spongiosum

Dasycladus densus

Derbesia marina, Halicystis ovalis

Derbesia tenuissima, Halicystis ovalis

Dictyosphaeria sericea

Enteromorpha clathrata

Enteromorpha compressa

Enteromorpha flexuosa

Enteromorpha intestinalis

Enteromorpha linza

Enteromorpha paradoxa

Enteromorpha prolifera

Enteromorpha ralfsii

Entocladia viridis

Halimeda cuneata

Lamprothamion papulosum

Microdictyon umbilicatum

Palmellaceae

Pedobesia clavaeformis

Percursaria percursa

Prasiola crispa

Prasiola stipitata

Pseudochlorodesmis australis

Pseudocodium australasicum

Rhipilia pusilla

Rhipiliopsis peltata

Rhipiliopsis robusta

Rhizoclonium curvatum

Rhizoclonium implexicum

Rhizoclonium riparium

Rhizoclonium tortuosum

Rosenvingiella polyrhiza

Sporocladopsis (Pilinia) novae-zelandieae

Struvea plumosa

Ulothrix subflaccida

Ulva australis

Ulva fasciata

Ulva lactuca

Ulva rigida

Ulva spathulata

Ulva taeniata

Ulvaria oxysperma

Ulvaria shepherdii

Uronema marinum

Urospora penicilliformis

Wittrockiella salina

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Algae of Southern Australia, State Herbarium of South Australia

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Identification Factsheets of the Marine Benthic Flora (Algae) of Southern Australia Author: R.N. Baldock (Bob) © R.N. Baldock 2010-2019These factsheets have been developed to aid in the identification of species from the rich algal diversity of our southern Australian coasts. Through the personal efforts of Emeritus Professor H.B.S.

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State Flora staff can help you select the right plants for your Australian garden - such as striking ground-covers, low shrubs, sedges and grasses,...

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We would love to see your work! Please share images and feedback to DEWBGSchools@sa.gov.au

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Follow this step by step guide, created with researchers at the State Herbarium!

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Classroom Herbarium MAKE YOUR OWN PRESS GUIDE

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This is an example of what your specimen might look like after drying and curating!

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Special Thanks to the Department for Education

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Special Thanks to the Department for Education

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Education at the Botanic Gardens is made possible through a partnership between the Department for Education and the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia.