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Research
Scientific research at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria supports a range of conservation and sustainability initiatives, including the propagation and reintroduction of endangered native orchids. Our scientists play a key role in discovering and naming plants (taxonomy), in resolving their relationships and evolutionary history (systematics), and in the identification of new non-native plants and fungi in the Australian landscape.
Our research broadly includes:
- Mycology
- Conservation Genetics
- DNA Barcoding
- Ecology
- Biogeography and Phylogeography