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.

GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/83ae84cf-88e4-4b5c-80b2-271a15a3e0fc
Citation: Ranatunga D, Hoare B (2026). Auckland Museum Botany Collection. Version 1.103. Auckland War Memorial Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mnjkvv accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-11.