Australian Plant Image Index

The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) has for many years been building up a collection of photographs and illustrations of Australia's native plants. Originally these were photos taken on field collecting trips to supplement the herbarium specimens and data associated with the living plants. The collection attempts to have photos linked to herbarium voucher specimens lodged within one of the major herbaria in Australia. In recent years many other photographers have contributed to the APII with the identification of the plants based on in-situ plant identification in botanic gardens, identification keys, or consulting experts in the area. There over 28,000 Australian plant photos from APII that were either born-digital or have been digitised from slides. There are over 48,000 plant photos held in the APII collection, including those still in slide form and not yet digitised. Searches can be made for all records, with those that are digitised being displayed as thumbnails. Historic photos of the ANBG, other Botanic Gardens, National Parks, landscapes, animals are also held in the collection.

澳大利亚国家植物园（Australian National Botanic Gardens，ANBG）多年来持续构建澳大利亚本土植物的照片与插画馆藏。最初，该馆藏的照片均拍摄于野外采集考察行程中，用于补充标本馆标本及与活体植物相关的关联数据。该馆藏旨在将照片与存放在澳大利亚任一主流标本馆内的凭证标本（herbarium voucher specimens）相关联。近年来，诸多其他摄影师也为澳大利亚植物图像馆藏（Australian Plant Image Index，APII）贡献了内容，馆藏内的植物鉴定工作则基于植物园内的原位植物识别、分类检索表，或是咨询该领域专业人士完成。目前，APII馆藏中存有超过28000张澳大利亚本土植物照片，这些照片均为原生数字格式，或是由胶片幻灯片数字化转换而来。整个APII馆藏共收录超过48000张植物照片，其中包含尚未完成数字化转换的胶片幻灯片格式照片。用户可检索馆藏内所有记录，已完成数字化转换的照片将以缩略图形式展示。此外，该馆藏还收录有ANBG、其他植物园、国家公园、自然景观及野生动物的历史照片。