Know Our Plants

The Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens is one of five plant taxonomic periodicals published by Australian herbaria and botanic gardens. It is published since 1976 in print form. Since 2011 all back issues of the Journal are available online.

On 1 May 2013 the Journal started electronic publication of articles. This means that papers are available online in PDF format soon after they are reviewed, edited and type-set. Hardcopy is still produced at the end of a year, collating all articles produced between January and December.

Please visit flora.sa.gov.au/jabg to download the first papers of Vol. 26, 2013. Two articles describing new species of lichen for southern Australia.

For authors this will have the advantage of a shorter time between submission of a manuscripts and final publication of the paper. Readers will be able to access papers instantly and free of charge from the Journal’s web-page.

Please contact the Editor for more information.

The State Herbarium of South Australia will be open to the public on 4 and 5 May 2013 during Open House Adelaide as part of the About Time: South Australia’s History Festival.

The heritage-listed 1909 Tram Barn A was once part of a complex housing the Adelaide tram fleet. Now the State Herbarium, it houses over one million plant specimens instead. See some of the first plants collected in the State on Matthew Flinders’ voyage and learn how all these dried specimens are critical to the effective preservation of living plants.

Read more about Tram Barn A and the over one million plant specimens in booklets published by State Herbarium staff.

Guided walking tours will be available on both 4 and 5 May, 2013 at 11am and 1pm.

Bookings are essential.