The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) is an online resource[1] that allows access to plant specimen data held by various Australian and New Zealand herbaria.

[5] This resource is used by academics, students, and anyone interested in research in botany in Australia or New Zealand, since each record tells all that is known about the specimen: where and when it was collected; by whom; its current identification together with the botanist who identified it; and information on habitat and associated species.

[6] When interrogating individual specimen records, the environmental overlays show reverse jackknife testing[7][8] to see whether the specimen is an outlier with respect to the climate and other environmental layers.

[9] Examples of the use of these records may be found in A google scholar search, using the phrase Australia's Virtual Herbarium, shows that well over 200 articles (as of 3 May 2018) have been published using data from this resource.

[21] An article by Tim Entwisle in 2003[22] shows it still to be largely in the planning stage at that time, although the projected usages for preservation of biodiversity in western New South Wales were already visible.