Australian National Herbarium

The Australian National Herbarium (Index Herbariorum code: CANB) provides a national focus for plant taxonomic and systematic endeavour and serves as the Commonwealth's prime resource for botanical information. Its collections support and authenticate the taxonomy used in genetic and ecological work undertaken by the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research and other botanical programs of the CSIRO as well as authenticating the living and image collections and the horticultural research programs of the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG).
CANB comprises the herbarium component of CSIRO's National Research Collections. The collection was founded by the former CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, but several other collections have subsequently been incorporated.
* The _Eucalyptus_ collections of CSIRO's Forest Research Institute (Index Herbariorum code: FRI) were incorporated into CANB in 1987.
* In November 1993 an agreement was signed between CSIRO and the Director of National Parks (then the Australian Nature Conservation Agency) to form the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR; then the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CPBR). One part of the agreement was to amalgamate the Australian National Botanic Gardens' herbarium collections (formerly the Canberra Botanic Gardens; Index Herbariorum code: CBG) into CANB. The physical amalgamation of the majority of the two herbarium collections on the CSIRO's Black Mountain site took place in 1994.
* The Australian National University's Chemistry Department herbarium collection (Index Herbariorum code: ANUC) was incorporated into CANB in 1996.

The herbarium code CANB is used for the combined collections, although individual specimens originally from CBG will continue to be cited with CBG accession details. The approximately 250,000 CBG specimens are included in the total for CANB.

The Australian National Herbarium's collection previously housed in Atherton (Index Herbarium code:QRS) now forms part of the Australian Tropical Herbarium in Cairns (Index Herbarium code: CNS).

澳大利亚国家标本馆（植物标本馆索引代码（Index Herbariorum code）：CANB）是植物分类学与系统学研究的国家级核心平台，同时也是澳大利亚联邦首要的植物学信息资源库。其馆藏不仅支撑并验证了澳大利亚国家生物多样性研究中心以及澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）其他植物学项目中所采用的分类学研究体系，同时为澳大利亚国家植物园（ANBG）的活体馆藏、图像馆藏及园艺研究项目提供权威佐证。

CANB是CSIRO国家研究馆藏体系中的标本馆组成部分。该馆藏最初由原CSIRO植物工业部创立，后续陆续并入了多份外部馆藏：
1. 1987年，CSIRO森林研究所（植物标本馆索引代码：FRI）的桉属（Eucalyptus）馆藏正式并入CANB。
2. 1993年11月，CSIRO与国家公园管理局（时为澳大利亚自然保护署）签署合作协议，成立澳大利亚国家生物多样性研究中心（CANBR，前身为植物生物多样性研究中心CPBR）。根据协议条款，澳大利亚国家植物园的标本馆藏（原堪培拉植物园；植物标本馆索引代码：CBG）将并入CANB。1994年，两份标本馆藏的主体部分在CSIRO黑山园区完成实体整合。
3. 1996年，澳大利亚国立大学化学系标本馆藏（植物标本馆索引代码：ANUC）正式并入CANB。

尽管原属CBG的单个标本仍将保留CBG的馆藏编号标注，但合并后的所有馆藏统一使用CANB作为标本馆代码。CANB的总馆藏统计包含约25万份CBG标本。

原存放于阿瑟顿的澳大利亚国家标本馆藏（植物标本馆索引代码：QRS），现隶属于凯恩斯的澳大利亚热带标本馆（植物标本馆索引代码：CNS）。