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National Herbarium of Victoria

Australian herbaria and scientific institution in Victoria

Summary

Australian herbaria and scientific institution in Victoria

Field	Value
name	National Herbarium of Victoria
image	National Herbarium of Victoria facade.jpg
caption	The façade; an extension to the original building
established
location	Melbourne
state	Victoria
country	Australia
coor
address	Dallas Brooks Dr & Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne VIC 3004
website

Reverse; showing the original architecture

The National Herbarium of Victoria (Index Herbariorum code: MEL—comprise the largest herbarium collection in Australia and Oceania.

The collection includes scientifically and historically significant collections gathered by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander during the voyage of in 1770, as well as 2,000 specimens collected by Robert Brown during Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia (1801–1805), and three collections made by Darwin during the Voyage of the Beagle to South America, Australia, and the Pacific. The herbarium was established in 1853 by Ferdinand von Mueller, the Government Botanist for Victoria, and is situated within the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. The present building was constructed in 1934 through a donation from philanthropist Sir Macpherson Robertson. It, along with a 1989 extension, houses the entire collection of 1.5 million plant and fungal specimens. The Herbarium's botanic library is an important source for the history of Australian botany, and has contributed some 124 volumes (of the 1212 volumes contributed by Australia Institutions) to the digital Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Piechart of Australian contributions to the Biodiversity Heritage Library<ref name=bhlau/>

The herbarium is also a partner in the Australasian Virtual Herbarium project, thereby making all of its collection data available to anyone to use. The herbarium also publishes an online key together with descriptions of plants found in Victoria via VicFlora.

Collections

Over half of the existing collection was acquired by Mueller. The herbarium includes the following collections:

Otto Sonder herbarium
Fern collections
Bryophyte collections
Algae collections
Lichen collections
Fungi collections
Botany of the Burke and Wills expedition

References

) is one of [[Australia]]'s earliest [[herbarium. link. (25 February 2018 (accessed 20 August 2020))
Thiers, B. (2020 - continuously updated). National Herbarium of Victoria Collections Summary. ''Index Herbariorum. A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium.'' Available from: [http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125813 MEL Collections Summary] (accessed 21 August 2020)
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. [https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/science/herbarium-and-resources/national-herbarium-of-victoria/darwin-collections Darwin Collections] {{Webarchive. link. (7 August 2020 (accessed 20 August 2020))
"National Herbarium of Victoria".
"New York Botanical Garden-Steere Herbarium: Index herbariorem (MEL)".
"Biodiversity Heritage Library: BHL Australia".
"VicFlora Flora of Victoria". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

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