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1. SEMINAR ON
HERBARIUM
prepared by
Miss. Ashna nain salimuddin
( B.Sc. II Sem-III )
Guided by
Dr. S.B.Thorat
Assistant professor
Head Department of Botany
Subject : Botany
Continues assessment
Acadmic year -2021-2022
VYWS SOCIETY’S AMRAVATI
Bar.R.D.I.K & N.K.D College,Badnera.
Department of Botany

2. CONTENT
Sr. number Topic Name Slide number
1) Introduction 3
2) Table 4
3) Significance 6
4) References 9

3. HERBARIUM
Definitions
 A collection of dried and pressed plants arranged according to a classification system and
available for study or reference is known as herbarium (plural: herbaria).
Or
 A herbarium ( herbaria) is termed where dried plants that are mounted and systemically
classified for scientific study.
Mounted plants

4. Sr. no Name of herbarium Approximate no. of
specimen
1 Museum of Natural History, Paris 6.5 million
2 Royal Botanical Garden, kew 5 million
3 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx 4.3 million
4 British Museum of Natural History, London 4.1 million
5 Natural History Museum, Vienna 3.5 million
6 Central National Herbarium, Calcutta 2.5 million
7 Field museum of natural history, Chicago 2.4 million
8 Botanical garden, and botanical museum,
berlin
2 million
9 Royal botanical garden, Edinburgh 1.7 million
Some major herbaria are enlisted in below table-

5. Some of important Indian herbaria enlisted below-
1. The Central National Herbarium, Calcutta
2. Herbarium of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
3. Botanical Survey of India
4. Blatter’ Herbarium Bombay
5. National Botanical Garden Herbarium, Lucknow

6. Significance of herbaria:
Herbaria are essential for the study of plant taxonomy, the study of
geographic distribution, and the stabilizing of nomenclature. Thus, it is
desirable to include in a specimen as much of the plant as possible (e.g.,
flowers, stems, leaves, seed, and fruit).
Specimen housed in herbaria may be used to catalogue or identify the flora
of an area. A large collection from a single area is used in writing a field
guide or manual to aid in the identification of the plants that grows there.
With more specimens available, the author of the guide will better
understand the variability of form in the plants and the natural distribution
over which the plants grow.

7. Herbarium : Collection of Plants

8. Ancient View of Herbarium
 In recent past a concept of a modern herbaria had emerged.
 These modern herbaria are utilized as reference centers for identification of
plants by the botanist doing research in taxonomy, ecology, agriculture and
pharmacy etc.
 Modern herbaria often maintain electronic databases of their collections.

9. REFERENCES
 Text book of botany
 Site
i. www.wikipidia.com
ii. https://www.expii.com