Species Families Families (APG)
Plants Group
Flowering Plants/ Angiosperms Non Flowering Seed Plants/ Gymnosperms Ferns & Allies
Andaman & Nicobar Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar
Chattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana
Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand Jammu & Kashmir Karnataka Kerala
Ladakh Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya
Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Pudichery Punjab
Rajasthan Sikkim Tamilnadu Telangana Tripura
Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh West Bengal
Neighbouring Countries
Afghanistan Bhutan Bangladesh Myanmar
Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka Tibet
General Family-wise Landscapes

 
 
  • Aeginetia indica
  • Centrosema molle
  • Prunus jacquemontii
  • Telosma pallida
  • Tonningia axillaris
  • Brassica juncea
  • Cudrania cochinchinensis
  • Justicia adhatoda
  • Christolea crassifolia
  • Fagopyrum dibotrys
  • Dieffenbachia picta
  • Gardenia gummifera
  • Clytostoma callistegioides
  • Orophea thomsonii
  • Canscora decussata
  • Memecylon talbotianum
  • Najas minor
  • Diplospora singularis
  • Indigofera angulosa
  • Thunbergia alata
  • Pulicaria angustifolia
  • Caesalpinia cucullata
  • Mucuna atropurpurea
  • Hewittia malabarica
  • Philadelphus tomentosus
  • Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
  • Dimorphocalyx glabellus
  • Euphorbia royleana
  • Viburnum nervosum
  • Canavalia rosea
  • Cyathocline lutea
  • Ophiorrhiza mungos
  • Rosularia alpestris
  • Chenopodium ambrosioides
  • Nicotiana tabacum
  • Digitalis purpurea
  • Kaempferia galanga
  • Persea odoratissima
  • Tephrosia pumila
  • Lagerstroemia speciosa
  • Sophora tomentosa
  • Hedychium gardnerianum
  • Ceropegia decaisneana
  • Cyathocline purpurea var. bicolor
  • Hibiscus panduriformis
  • Abutilon hirtum
  • Michelia alba
  • Mazus surculosus
  • Pouzolzia hirta
  • Merremia tridentata subsp. tridentata
  • Caralluma bicolor
  • Vitex trifolia
  • Cynoglossum zeylanicum
  • Xanthosoma sagittifolium
  • Acacia pennata
  • Gueldenstaedtia himalaica
  • Impatiens scabrida
  • Ficus lacor
  • Serissa japonica
  • Polygonum polystachyum
  • Albizia procera
  • Eleiotis trifoliata
  • Pterospermum acerifolium
  • Dumasia villosa
  • Impatiens inconspicua
  • Syzygium jambos
  • Erigeron annuus
  • Canavalia rosea
  • Utricularia lazulina
  • Ipomoea cairica
  • Ceropegia lawii
  • Neyraudia reynaudiana
  • Furcraea foetida
  • Excoecaria crenulata
  • Moringa oleifera
  • Agasthiyamalaia pauciflora
  • Fragaria nubicola
  • Croton malabaricus
  • Hippeastrum vittatum
  • Amaranthus hybridus
  • Desmodium benthamii
  • Pandanus fascicularis
  • Argemone mexicana
  • Acridocarpus smeathmanii
  • Suregada multiflora
  • Canavalia ensiformis
  • Symplocos cochinchinensis
  • Sedum ewersii
  • Clematis orientalis
  • Delphinium ajacis
  • Garcinia madruno
  • Dipterocarpus turbinatus var. andamanicus
  • Stellaria media
  • Andrographis neesiana
  • Litsea glabrata
  • Premna coriacea
  • Bauhinia foveolata
  • Smithia sensitiva
  • Codonopsis viridis
  • Talinum portulacifolium
  • Spiraea canescens
  • Arundinella nepalensis
  • Zingiber roseum
  • Nepeta floccosa
  • Barleria cristata var. dichotoma
  • Epiphyllum macropterum
  • Rivea ornata
  • Grewia eriocarpa
  • Dyschoriste litoralis
  • Tephrosia hamiltonii
  • Handroanthus impetiginosus
  • Miliusa tomentosa
  • Hibiscus vitifolius
  • Dipterocarpus bourdillonii
  • Ilex wightiana
  • Rumex dentatus
  • Tamarindus indica
  • Ixora lawsonii
  • Lantana indica
  • Corydalis govaniana
  • Dypsis lutescens
  • Hypericum mysurense
  • Glossostigma diandrum
  • Lysimachia chenopodioides
  • Cistanche tubulosa
  • Argyreia sericea
  • Microtropis stocksii
  • Passiflora racemosa
  • Sonerila scapigera
  • Chlorophytum breviscapum
  • Croton bonplandianus
  • Cestrum aurantiacum
  • Heliotropium scabrum
  • Cymbopogon flexuosus
  • Rhododendron arboreum
  • Lagenandra meeboldii
  • Scaevola taccada
  • Croton laccifer
  • Saccharum officinarum
  • Arenaria serpyllifolia
  • Excoecaria crenulata
  • Impatiens jerdoniae
  • Hypericum perforatum
  • Saxifraga pseudopallida
  • Lactuca sativa
  • Nothapodytes nimmoniana
  • Myristica dactyloides
  • Christisonia tubulosa
  • Terminalia tomentosa
  • Zingiber anamalayanum
  • Jasminum flexile
  • Medicago sativa
  • Luffa acutangula
  • Moringa concanensis
  • Persea odoratissima
  • Ixora brachiata
  • Osbeckia virgata
  • Glyptopetalum lawsonii
  • Euphorbia heterophylla
  • Oberonia swaminathanii
  • Rubia cordifolia
  • Indigofera nummulariifolia
  • Opuntia elatior
  • Epiphyllum oxypetalum
  • Swertia densifolia
  • Blumea eriantha
  • Terminalia cuneata
  • Celosia polygonoides
  • Rhus chinensis
  • Neurocalyx calycinus
  • Adansonia digitata
  • Melastoma malabathricum
  • Thalictrum platycarpum
  • Eleiotis monophylla
  • Senecio nudicaulis
  • Phlogacanthus thyrsiformis
  • Sopubia stricta
  • Senna sulfurea
  • Micrargeria wightii
  • Actinodaphne salicina
  • Vernonia elliptica
  • Calamus pseudotenuis
  • Salacia macrosperma
  • Chirita urticifolia
  • Naringi alata
  • Brunfelsia pauciflora
  • Genianthus laurifolius
  • Rhynchosia densiflora
  • Jatropha heynei
  • Impatiens modesta
  • Hemidesmus indicus var. indicus
  • Garcinia livingstonei
  • Bulbophyllum tremulum
  • Cinnamomum malabatrum
  • Barleria buxifolia
  • Elaeocarpus lanceolatus
  • Aristolochia tagala
  • Ipomoea muricata
  • Mundulea sericea
  • Gardenia gummifera
  • Ixora finlaysoniana
  • Solanum anguivi
  • Diplocyclos palmatus
  • Eugenia rottleriana
  • Homonoia retusa
  • Elaeocarpus variabilis
  • Phyllanthus longiflorus
  • Ruta chalepensis
 
Herbarium Compactors

      Herbarium JCB


The Center for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science houses a herbarium of a fairly large number of specimens of native and naturalized plants collected by many taxonomists and researchers. This herbarium is recognized internationally by the acronym ‘JCB’. The collection consists of more than 20,000 specimens, from vascular plants to lichens. The duplicates of the authenticated specimens have been deposited with herbaria of the Royal Botanic Gardens at KEW, UK and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. It is richest with plants from the state of Karnataka and the Western Ghats. Recent efforts have added further collection from the states of Maharastra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. This herbarium probably is the only holding of plant specimens collected from all over Peninsular States other than the Central National Herbarium (CAL).
One important research activity in the herbarium has been to generate and organize vast amounts of information on the floral wealth of different regions of the country and then package it to suit the requirements of an online information system.
Further to launching the Digital flora of Karnataka, Digital flora of Eastern Ghats and the Flora of Peninsular India databases, the herbarium team has embarked on a broad regional study towards developing an online information system for the plant wealth in the country.

 

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Centre for Ecological Sciences

Indian Institute of Science

Contact Us

K. Sankara Rao,
Herbarium JCB,
Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES),
Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
Bangalore - 560012.

Phone: +91 80 22932506;
+91 80 23600985

E-mail: herbarium.ces@iisc.ac.in;
shankarrao@iisc.ac.in

How to upload contributions:
shankarrao@iisc.ac.in

 
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