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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-US"> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Home - AVH</title>  <title>Home | AVH</title> <meta name="generator" content="Jekyll v4.2.1" /> <meta property="og:title" content="Home" /> <meta name="author" content="name" /> <meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" /> <link rel="canonical" href="https//avh.chah.org.au/" /> <meta property="og:url" content="https//avh.chah.org.au/" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="AVH" /> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" /> <meta property="twitter:title" content="Home" /> <meta name="twitter:site" content="@" /> <meta name="twitter:creator" content="@name" /> <script type="application/ld+json"> {"headline":"Home","url":"https//avh.chah.org.au/","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"name"},"name":"AVH","@type":"WebSite","@context":"https://schema.org"}</script>  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/assets/favicon.ico"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/main.css"> </head> <body> <nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light"> <div class="container"> <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarSupportedContent" aria-controls="navbarSupportedContent" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation"> <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span> </button> <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarSupportedContent"> <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">  <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="/"><i class="fas fa-home"></i></a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="https://avh.ala.org.au/search">Search</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="/about">About</a> </li> <li class="nav-item dropdown"> <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="navbarDropdown" role="button" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false"> Help </a> <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdown"> <a class="dropdown-item" href="/using-avh">Using AVH</a> <a class="dropdown-item" href="/data">Data</a> <a class="dropdown-item" href="https://avh.ala.org.au/fields">Fields</a> </div> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="/news">News</a> </li> </ul> <ul class="navbar-nav"> <li><a class="facebook-link btn btn-default" href="https://www.facebook.com/AustVirtHerb"><i class="fab fa-facebook-square"></i></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> <div id="site-branding" class="site-branding"> <div class="container"> <div class="site-logo"><img src="/media/logo/avh-logo-white-80.png" alt=""></div> <div class="site-header"> <h1 class="site-title" data-toc-skip><a href="/" rel="home">AVH</a></h1> <h2 class="site-description" data-toc-skip>The Australasian Virtual Herbarium</h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <div id="hp-main"> <div class="row"> <div id="primary" class="content-area col-md-8"> <div id="blurb"> <p>Australian and New Zealand herbaria house over eight million plant, algae and fungi specimens. Herbarium specimens are an important resource for research on the Australasian flora and provide a permanent record of the occurrence of a species at a particular place and time. The AVH provides access to the collecting data associated with these specimens. </p> </div> <div class="avh-search-form"> <form action="https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search" id="solrSearchForm" _lpchecked="1"> <div class="avh-input-group"> <div class="input-group"> <input type="text" class="form-control" id="avh-search" name="taxa" placeholder="Search..."> <span class="input-group-btn"> <button class="btn btn-default" type="submit">Quick search</button> </span> </div> </div> <div class="text-right"><a href="https://avh.ala.org.au/search/#tab_advanceSearch">Advanced search</a></div> </form> </div> <div id="carouseel-avh-home" class="carousel slide"> <ol class="carousel-indicators"> <li data-target="#carousel-avh-home" data-slide-to="0" class="active"></li> <li data-target="#carousel-avh-home" data-slide-to="1"></li> <li data-target="#carousel-avh-home" data-slide-to="2"></li> <li data-target="#carousel-avh-home" data-slide-to="3"></li> <li data-target="#carousel-avh-home" data-slide-to="4"></li> <li data-target="#carousel-avh-home" data-slide-to="5"></li> </ol> <div class="carousel-inner"> <div class="carousel-item active"> <img class="d-block w-100" src="/media/homepage/carousel/slide_10.jpg" alt="First slide"> <div class="carousel-caption d-none d-md-block"> Herbaria are active research collections that are used for taxonomic, historical and ecological research (<a href="http://avh.ala.org.au/occurrence/2735d426-4e38-4b82-a0fc-f78f694ffcbe">AD 234223</a>). Photo: State Herbarium of South Australia. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="cc by nc-sa 4.0" src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/80x15.png"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="carousel-item"> <img class="d-block w-100" src="/media/homepage/carousel/slide_1.jpg" alt="Second slide"> <div class="carousel-caption d-none d-md-block"> Herbaria often contain separate carpological collections to house large fruits – such as <i>Banksia</i> cones, pine cones and these fruits of <i>Flindersia australis</i> (<a href="http://avh.ala.org.au/occurrence/f6518a57-d5fb-4575-a875-81b7c90bfe2c">MEL 2013790</a>) – that are too bulky to be mounted on a typical herbarium sheet. Photo: Janusz Molinski. © Royal Botanic Gardens Board 2020. All rights reserved. </div> </div> <div class="carousel-item"> <img class="d-block w-100" src="/media/homepage/carousel/slide_3.jpg" alt="Third slide"> <div class="carousel-caption d-none d-md-block"> Although most plant specimens are pressed and dried, some – such as these orchids – are preserved in alcohol in order to retain important diagnostic characters that would be lost upon drying. Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="cc by nc-sa 4.0" src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/80x15.png"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="carousel-item"> <img class="d-block w-100" src="/media/homepage/carousel/slide_4.jpg" alt="Third slide"> <div class="carousel-caption d-none d-md-block"> As well as vascular plant specimens, herbaria house collections of cryptogams, fungi and algae, such as this specimen of the lichen <i>Teloschistes fasciculatus</i> (<a href="http://avh.ala.org.au/occurrence/1e21ab0a-8f6a-4aec-8b73-703c3d9b4784">MEL 22411</a>). Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="cc by nc-sa 4.0" src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/80x15.png"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="carousel-item"> <img class="d-block w-100" src="/media/homepage/carousel/slide_5.jpg" alt="Third slide"> <div class="carousel-caption d-none d-md-block"> Important diagnostic features – such as the colour and form of fungi fruit bodies – can be lost when specimens are dried, so illustrations and photographs are often used to record these details prior to preservation. Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="cc by nc-sa 4.0" src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/80x15.png"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="carousel-item"> <img class="d-block w-100" src="/media/homepage/carousel/slide_6.jpg" alt="Third slide"> <div class="carousel-caption d-none d-md-block"> In addition to specimens collected within Australia and New Zealand, many Australasian herbaria contain important collections of plants, algae and fungi from other countries. Photo: Janusz Molinski, © Royal Botanic Gardens Board 2020. 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