Corporate Body
The University of Melbourne Herbarium (1926 - )
The University of Melbourne
- From
- 1926
Parkville, Victoria, Australia - Functions
- Conservation or Environment
- Website
- http://www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/herbarium/
- Location
- The University of Melbourne Herbarium, School of Botany, The University of Melbourne
Summary
The University of Melbourne Herbarium serves as a teaching and research collection. The collection contains approximately 100,000 specimens, comprising all major plant groups including fungi, mosses, liverworts, lichens, algae, ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants. At 2019 the Herbarium also included the specimen collections from Burnley College and the Victorian School of Forestry.
Related entries
Superior
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Conference Papers
- Clarke, I.C., 'History of the herbarium, School of Botany, University of Melbourne', in History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988 edited by Short, P.S. (Melbourne: Australian Systematic Botany Society Inc., 1990), pp. 13-22.. Details
Journal Articles
- Gillbank, Linden, 'The University of Melbourne Herbarium, from McCoy to MELU: a broken paper-trail', University of Melbourne Collections, 1 (2007), 20-8. Details
- Middleton, Nicole, 'Exhibiting the History of The University of Melbourne Herbarium (MELU)', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 136 (2008), 22-4. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1508864. Details
See also
- Cowley, K. J.; West, J. G, Resources of Australian Herbaria [online], with Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria, Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 2002, http://www.anbg.gov.au/chah/resources/intro/index.html. Details
Christine Moje
Created: 10 July 2012, Last modified: 21 January 2020
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