Description
No information
- Taxonomic description
- All plant groups and algae and fungi
- Geographic description
- Worldwide, with emphasis on Australia, especially Victoria
- Temporal description
- No information
- Notes
- The National Herbarium of Victoria sits on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and acknowledge the deep and enduring plant knowledge held by First Peoples. MEL is a Statutory Body responsible through the Royal Botanic Gardens Board to the Minister for Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.
- Code
- MEL
- Number of specimens in collection
- 1,500,000
- Homepage
- Incorporated collections
- MUCV, 11,000 specimens, Feb 2017
Collection descriptors
Collection descriptors allows a collection to be described in more detail. This can be useful for collections that are not yet digitized or for collections that have specific characteristics that are not covered by the standard collection metadata.
Contacts
- Country
- Australia
- State/Province
- Victoria
- City/Town
- Melbourne
- Postal/Zip Code
- 3004
- Address
- Birdwood Ave.
- Mailing address
- Country
- Australia
- State/Province
- Victoria
- City/Town
- South Yarra
- Postal/Zip Code
- 3004
- Address
- Private Bag 2000
AV
Alison Vaughan
Collections Manager
Identifiers
- Code
- MEL
- Identifiers
- Identifier used by GBIF7777d910-553a-45ac-b0e5-635261c1e992
Entry created: March 31, 2020
Last modified: August 06, 2025
Modified by: ih-sync