Hornsby Council - Online Herbarium |
31 May 2008 9:11 AM
Here's an initiative that could be a model for other Local Government authorities and district groups of the Society.Hornsby Council's Online Herbarium was created in partnership between Hornsby Council and members of the North Shore Group of the Australian Plants Society.
The Herbarium is based on a pressed plant collection housed in the Local Studies section of Hornsby Library, which has been assembled by Jenny Lewis and a team of dedicated local volunteers over ten years. Jenny and the team from the North Shore Group of the Australian Plants Society are continually adding high-quality scans of live material as well as photographs of plants in the field.
The Online Herbarium is an easy to access, fully searchable electronic database, containing photos and information on hundreds of plants collected locally.
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When completed, the database is expected to include more than 900 native species and over 200 introduced plants found so far in Hornsby Shire. Other plants will be added as they are found. Details on each plant include its classification, family, genus, species, common name, collection location and habitat, and will assist bush regenerators in identifying plants at bushcare sites.
Check out the online herbarium by visiting Hornsby Council's Library web site and then selecting the link to the Hornsby Online Herbarium.
Hearty congratulations to the North Shore group on a fantastic initiative. If any reader knows of anything similar elsewhere, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
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