**Code**: [VPRI](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124840)
**Organization**: Victorian State Government, Australia
**Division**: Agriculture Victoria
**Department**: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
**Location**: Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
**Total number of specimens**: 42000
**Current status**: Active
**Date founded**: 1890
**Taxonomic coverage**: Plant pathogens, particularly on Australian crop and native plants; predominantly fungal plant pathogens, but includes plant parasitic nematodes and plant pathogenic bacteria; McAlpine historical specimens, Erysiphales; cercosporoid fungi
**Geographic coverage**: Australia
**Important collectors**: V. Beilharz, J. Cunnington, D. McAlpine, I. G. Pascoe, B. C. Sutton
**Notes**: Formerly listed under BURNLEY and KNOXFIELD. Contains McAlpine historical collections from 1890-1910, many type specimens, many first records for Australia. Main purpose is for voucher-based evidence of pathogen presence in Victoria and Australia; Australian record data available through the Australian Plant Pest Database (restricted access). For information on specimens held, contact the Curator directly (currently Dr Jacqueline Edwards).
**Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2023-03-29
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