Mount Buffalo Collection

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In 1938/39 botanist Percival St John was commissioned by Wilfred Russell Grimwade to make a collection of plants (Grimwade Plant Collection) from the Mt Buffalo plateau in north-east Victoria. In 2006 a grant from the Miegunyah Foundation to the School of Botany, the University of Melbourne, facilitated: A) re-location, curation and databasing of this plant collection; B) a new collection of plants from Mt Buffalo (Miegunyah Mt Buffalo Collection), including duplicate sets of specimens to be housed at the University of Melbourne Herbarium and at the Mt Buffalo Chalet; C) an update of the plant species list for Mt Buffalo National Park. A total of 226 species of vascular plants were collected for the Miegunyah Mt Buffalo Collection during collecting trips made in April 2006, November-December 2006, and January 2007. The revised list of vascular plants at Mt Buffalo National Park now includes 617 species, subspecies and varieties, with 129 new additions to the list in the course of the study.