Table: Electronic data mainly in Australian government herbaria relating to vascular plants available to a Virtual Australian Herbarium.

Census/ Nomenclatural  
Full electronic census of vascular plants, ....................

often with regional distribution and key synonyms

· State: AD, BRI, DNA/NT, HO, MEL, NSW, PERTH.

· Australia wide: CANB (Australian Plant Names Index: shared with herbaria)
 

Full Australian coverage of census data
Specimen  
Herbaria fully databased (collection number) ...............

· BRI (600K: not all label data); NT/DNA (174K); PERTH (435K); QRS (122K)
Herbaria partially databased ........................................

(collection number; percent databased)

· AD (800K: 20%); MEL (1125K: 10%); NSW (1000K: 30%); CANB (1214K: 38%); HO (435K: 15%); a few university herbaria
 

Total specimens databased in Govt herbaria: 41.2% of 5.8 million
Ethnobotanical  
Institutional datasets .................................................

· DNA/NT
Image  
Herbaria with institutional image banks .......................

· CANB; DNA/NT; PERTH
Descriptive  
Electronic: Institutional descriptive data banks ...........

· PERTH; NSW
Specialist descriptive data .........................

· AD; BRI; CANB; MEL; PERTH; QRS
Textual: (number of currently known species in State:
% covered by a flora or better description <20 yrs old)

· AD (4500: 97%) ; BRI (8000: 62%); DNA/NT (4200: 60-70%); HO (2400: 95%);
MEL (4200: 99%); NSW (6535: 97%); PERTH (12500: 40%)
Projects involving interactive keys with descriptions and images ( DELTA/Intkey; LucID; etc. ) These are often prototype flora information systems (electronic floras or
handbooks) involving more than identification tools. (*completed)
AD ..............................................................................

· Hakea; Seeds of Australian Scrophulariaceae; Native Grasses of South Australia
BRI .............................................................................

· Grasses of the Moreton District
CANB, QRS .................................................................

· *Euclid (Eucalyptus); Grevillea; Australian Angiosperm families (cooperative
with Australian specialists and ABRS); Rainforest trees and shrubs
DNA/NT .....................................................................

· Central Australian Flora

MEL

· Pomaderris; Alpine Flora of Victoria
PERTH .......................................................................

· *W.Aust.Flora Catalogue; WA Families and genera; Rare and threatened flora; *Phytophthora species of the world; *Acacias of Kalannie region, WA; Acacias of Australia (cooperative with Australian State herbaria)
NSW

· Labiatae genera of world; Keys to genera of New Guinea vascular plants (with AD)
Other agencies: ANU ..................................................

· *World Angiosperm families
ABRS .................................................

· Australia’s Flora Online (involving Australian specialists etc.)