Question

what is herbaria and its purposes..?

Answer 1

herbaria is an album to preserve plant parts like flowers, leaves etc. for study purpose

Answer 2

Answer :

Herbaria (Sing.- Herbarium) :–

• It is a store house of collected plant specimens which are dried, compressed and preserved on sheets.
• The arrangement of these sheets is done according to the universally accepted system of classification.
• Specimens along descriptions on the herbarium sheets of a particular plant is a repository for future use.
• The information about the plants is labelled at the base of the sheet.
• The information includes : Date and place of collection, different names given to the plant (local/English), Botanical name of the plant, Family, Collector's name, etc.
• There are two types of herbaria : Major (National) and Minor (Regional/Local/College/University)

Steps involved :

• First of all, a part of a plant is collected and dried using a poison.
• It is stitched, labelled and deposited.
• It is stitched on a herbarium sheet.
• The size of a herbarium sheet is 41×29 cm² or 16.5×11.5 inch².
• The size of the label used to write the description of the plant is : 7×12 cm.
• Fragmented packets are used for seeds, extra flowers or loose plant parts.

Some important herbaria of India includes -

1. Herbaria of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun.
2. Central National Herbarium, Calcutta.
3. Herbaria of NBRI, Lucknow.