Question

Give a brief account of herbaria. Enlist important herbaria in india.

Answer 1

A herbarium is a collection of plants, which have been dried, pressed, mounted on herbarium sheets, identified and classified according to some approved system of classificationThe greatest herbarium of the world is at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, possessing about six million specimens. A few good herbaria are there in our country. The biggest herbarium of our country is at the Indian Botanic Garden, Calcutta, possessing about one million specimens.

Some herbaria are:
1-Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun
2-. Herbarium of the Indian Botanic Gardens, Calcutta
3-Herbarium of the National Botanic Gardens, Lucknow
4-Madras Herbarium, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Coimbatore
5- Herbarium of the Division of Botany, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, (I.A.R.I.), New Delhi....etc.