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. APII is based on an Oracle database backend.

澳大利亚国家植物园（Australian National Botanic Gardens, ANBG）多年来一直致力于构建澳大利亚本土植物的照片与插画馆藏。最初，这些照片均拍摄于野外采集行程中，用于补充标本馆标本及与活体植物相关的配套数据。该馆藏旨在实现照片与存放在澳大利亚任一主流标本馆内的标本馆凭证标本（herbarium voucher specimens）建立关联。近年来，诸多其他摄影师也为APII供稿，植物鉴定工作则基于植物园内的原位植物识别、分类检索表或咨询该领域专家完成。APII馆藏现有超过28000张澳大利亚植物照片，这些照片均为原生数字格式或由幻灯片数字化而来。整个APII馆藏目前共收纳逾48000张植物照片，其中包含尚未完成数字化的幻灯片格式照片。用户可检索所有馆藏记录，已完成数字化的照片将以缩略图形式展示。该馆藏还收纳有澳大利亚国家植物园、其他植物园、国家公园、自然景观及动物的历史影像资料。APII的后端基于Oracle数据库搭建。