SANParks herbarium data for Addo Elephant National Park

This dataset is a record of the herbarium data held by South African National Parks. The herbarium voucher specimens currently reside at the Kimberley South African National Parks Herbarium, which was established in 1992 with the amalgamation of several informal herbaria scattered across various parks, namely: Vaalbos (since deproclaimed and being replaced by Mokala National Park), Kalahari Gemsbok, Addo Elephant and Mountain Zebra National Parks (NPs). The original collection of over 1750 plant specimens, some of which had been collected in the 1940s, was temporarily based at Dalham House in Kimberley. Several years later, in 2001, the collection was transferred to its current premises in the Scientific Services offices. During the same year the herbarium was registered as an international herbarium and became formally known as the Kimberley South African National Parks Herbarium. Today, plant specimens from all national parks except the Garden Route and Kruger NPs are housed at KSAN in individual herbarium cabinets. Every year new specimens are added to the collection which currently comprises >16000 specimens and is of intrinsic historical and scientific value.