Collections
A growing proportion of our collection has been digitised and is available to the public online.
University of Melbourne Collection online
The University of Melbourne Herbarium Collection Online enables public access to the collection’s digitised content, including specimen collection data and high-resolution images. Specimen data can be searched or browsed, locations can be mapped, and plant features or the collector’s handwriting are visible in the high-resolution images. The Collection Online is the digital key that unlocks the biodiversity held in the herbarium for access by all. Currently around 20% of the collection is digitised.
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Wilson's Promontory Virtual Herbarium
An overview of the plants and algae of Wilsons Promontory National Park. Contains photos of live plants in situ, descriptive and ecological information, images of herbarium specimens.
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Grimwade Collection
Images of specimens collected in the 1930s from Mt Buffalo National Park.
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Burnley Collection
Predominantly horticultural and invasive plant species, originally used for teaching and research at Burnley Horticultural College (now the University of Melbourne's Burnley campus).
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From the Murray to the sea
This exhibition tells the stories behind Herbert Williamson’s herbarium specimens, a man of many talents: teacher and principal in Victorian schools for 49 years and a highly regarded botanist who was recognised by his colleagues as an authority on Victorian plants.
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Botanical Model Collection
Studio and 3D images of a set of the School of BioSciences Botanical Models. Enlarged representations of plants, fungi, and bacteria, documenting the various life cycle stages of these lineages and demonstrating their anatomy and morphology.
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Malcolm Howie Watercolours
Watercolour paintings of Victorian fungi from the 1930s. Our herbarium (MELU) has a set of 80 sheets of watercolours. These were commissioned from Howie in the 1930s by Dr Ethel McLennan (1891-1983) for the School of Botany.
Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH)
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) is an online resource that provides dynamic access to the wealth of plant specimen data held by Australian and New Zealand herbaria.