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

 
 
  • Embelia basaal
  • Jasminum auriculatum
  • Guaiacum officinale
  • Loeseneriella africana
  • Peperomia pellucida
  • Ipomoea nil
  • Syzygium nervosum
  • Drosera burmanni
  • Brassica juncea
  • Brachystelma ciliatum
  • Chionanthus mala-elengi subsp. mala-elengi
  • Prosopis cineraria
  • Murdannia dimorpha
  • Morinda pubescens var. stenophylla
  • Trichoglottis tenera
  • Parsonsia alboflavescens
  • Viburnum grandiflorum
  • Senna holosericea
  • Erythrina suberosa
  • Viburnum cotinifolium
  • Alysicarpus monilifer
  • Asclepias curassavica
  • Trichodesma sedgwickianum
  • Merremia dissecta
  • Peristylus lawii
  • Rhodomyrtus tomentosa
  • Spilanthes calva
  • Sesbania aculeata var. paludosa
  • Smilax glaucophylla
  • Clerodendrum paniculatum
  • Pilea microphylla
  • Caesalpinia coriaria
  • Rhynchosia acutissima
  • Jasminum grandiflorum
  • Ipomoea mauritiana
  • Cryptocarya stocksii
  • Euphorbia rothiana
  • Cajanus cajanifolius
  • Dysophylla tomentosa
  • Podophyllum hexandrum
  • Sopubia stricta
  • Platanthera edgeworthii
  • Atylosia sericea
  • Magnolia campbellii
  • Croton scabiosus
  • Colocasia esculenta
  • Aglaia canarana
  • Nepeta floccosa
  • Evolvulus alsinoides
  • Ziziphus glaberrima
  • Excoecaria crenulata
  • Goodyera biflora
  • Ficus nervosa
  • Primula rosea
  • Cyanotis papilionacea
  • Ipomoea horsfalliae
  • Atylosia albicans
  • Rosa webbiana
  • Lemna gibba
  • Lilium polyphyllum
  • Ranunculus laetus
  • Holmskioldia sanguinea
  • Indigofera arrecta
  • Ixora arborea
  • Bauhinia blakeana
  • Glycosmis pentaphylla
  • Lepidagathis incurva
  • Byrsonima crassifolia
  • Phyllanthus myrtifolius
  • Cleistanthus collinus
  • Ehretia acuminata
  • Ceropegia decaisneana
  • Aristolochia elegans
  • Barleria prionitis subsp. prionitoides
  • Rungia elegans
  • Cynoglossum lanceolatum
  • Furcraea foetida
  • Bulbophyllum rosemarianum
  • Gomphrena globosa
  • Mimosa pudica
  • Lippia javanica
  • Polyalthia simiarum
  • Polycarpaea aurea
  • Disperis zeylanica
  • Strychnos potatorum
  • Exacum bicolor
  • Dalbergia rubiginosa
  • Bauhinia galpinii
  • Artocarpus gomezianus subsp. zeylanicus
  • Bulbophyllum aureoflavum
  • Sarcococca coriacea
  • Cissus repens
  • Platanthera edgeworthii
  • Oxalis acetosella
  • Aerides crispum
  • Centrolobium tomentosum
  • Rhizophora apiculata
  • Solena amplexicaulis
  • Passiflora vitifolia
  • Euphorbia rothiana
  • Indigofera atropurpurea
  • Leucas hirta
  • Alysicarpus tetragonolobus
  • Breynia vitis-idaea
  • Oenothera rosea
  • Tripogon purpurascens
  • Neanotis foetida
  • Maerua arenaria
  • Neolitsea zeylanica
  • Bauhinia vahlii
  • Tylophora indica var. glabra
  • Excoecaria crenulata
  • Uvaria lurida
  • Carissa spinarum
  • Didymocarpus tomentosus
  • Cissampelopsis calcadensis
  • Leucaena leucocephala
  • Drypetes porteri
  • Indigofera hirsuta
  • Cyperus kyllingia
  • Senecio dalzellii
  • Vanilla planifolia
  • Terminalia coriacea
  • Spondias indica
  • Lasianthus acuminatus
  • Physalis minima
  • Ailanthus excelsa
  • Alternanthera brasiliana
  • Sarcococca coriacea
  • Caesalpinia crista
  • Flemingia gracilis
  • Syzygium nervosum
  • Drosera indica
  • Vernonia peninsularis var. peninsularis
  • Thelepaepale ixiocephala
  • Polypleurum disciforme
  • Andrographis explicata
  • Barleria buxifolia
  • Myristica dactyloides
  • Ophiopogon japonicus
  • Tinospora cordifolia
  • Celosia polygonoides
  • Ziziphus xylopyrus
  • Impatiens scabriuscula var. alba
  • Andrographis neesiana
  • Terminalia tomentosa
  • Bauhinia ramosissima
  • Strobilanthes pulneyensis
  • Morus alba
  • Firmiana colorata
  • Erythrina arborescens
  • Pisonia excelsa
  • Premna latifolia
  • Plectranthus deccanicus
  • Endostemon viscosus
  • Cassytha filiformis
  • Diospyros angustifolia
  • Croton malabaricus
  • Terminalia procera
  • Clerodendrum colebrookeanum
  • Amherstia nobilis
  • Podostemum barberi
  • Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
  • Dipterocarpus turbinatus var. andamanicus
  • Rhodiola imbricata
  • Erythroxylum lanceolatum
  • Sphenostylis bracteata
  • Opuntia ficus-indica
  • Nymphoides indica
  • Anisochilus robustus
  • Pleione praecox
  • Crotalaria pallida
  • Habenaria plantaginea
  • Grewia asiatica
  • Dendrobium lawianum
  • Latania lontaroides
  • Balanophora abbreviata
  • Impatiens kotebettii
  • Mitracarpus villosus
  • Launaea nudicaulis
  • Rhynchoglossum notonianum
  • Lobelia heyneana
  • Tinospora sinensis
  • Firmiana colorata
  • Ficus fructicosa
  • Magnolia campbellii
  • Garcinia indica
  • Hypericum japonicum
  • Flemingia semialata
  • Ariopsis peltata
  • Cerbera manghas
  • Melia dubia
  • Lepidagathis cristata
  • Buddleja asiatica
  • Silene nigrescens
  • Melaleuca bracteata
  • Mollugo disticha
  • Adenia wightiana
  • Psychotria dalzellii
  • Rubus moluccanus
  • Allmania nodiflora
  • Dalbergia latifolia
  • Convolvulus rottlerianus
  • Elaeocarpus variabilis
  • Tecoma stans
  • Cynodon dactylon
  • Euphorbia pycnostegia
  • Dichroa febrifuga
 
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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