Plant Research

Research Projects

Biodiversity

Indigenous plants

• Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria
• Molecular phylogeny of Australian Acacia and related legumes
• Revision of Eriochlamys (Asteraceae)
• Revision of Australian Lobelioideae (Campanulaceae)
• Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• Systematic studies of Australian Dicranaceae (Bryophyta)
• Catalogue of Australian Mosses

Cultivated plants

• Greenlife Database - database of commercially-available plants in Australia

Fungi and Lichens

• FUNKEY --- An interactive identification guide to the genera of macrofungi in Australia
• Taxonomy of Australian macrofungi
• Interactive Catalogue of Australian Fungi
• Fungimap (website hosted by the Royal Botanic Gardens)
• Taxonomy and systematics of truffles and truffle-like fungi of Australasia
• Taxonomic revision of the lichen genera Peltigera, Umbilicaria, Stereocaulon and Nephroma in Australia

Conservation

• Conservation Seedbank of Victorian threatened plant species
• Post-fire recovery of alpine vegetation in Victoria and New South Wales
• Helmeted Honeyeater Recovery Team
• IUCN SSC Fungi Specialist Group (website hosted by RBG)

Horticultural Research

• Micropropagation of Australian plants
• Conservation of native orchids
• Conservation in horticulture
• Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia

Services

Plant Identification and Information Service

Facilities

National Herbarium of Victoria
Library
Maud Gibson Trust Molecular Laboratory

Publications

Muelleria
Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia
Flora of Victoria
Forgotten Flora project

Seminar Series

Staff