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

 
 
  • Impatiens viridiflora
  • Lepidagathis cuspidata
  • Calamus rotang
  • Asystasia travancorica
  • Impatiens bhaskarii
  • Dioscorea belophylla
  • Xyris pauciflora
  • Prunus ceylanica
  • Datura stramonium
  • Teucrium royleanum
  • Cardiocrinum giganteum
  • Acacia caesia
  • Cicer microphyllum
  • Oxytropis microphylla
  • Phyllanthus fraternus
  • Eulophia graminea
  • Polygonum sphaerocephalum
  • Magnolia doltsopa
  • Lablab purpureus
  • Calamus tenuis
  • Maurandya barclaiana
  • Euphorbia pulcherrima
  • Vitis reticulata
  • Pupalia lappacea
  • Ziziphus mauritiana var. fruticosa
  • Corchorus capsularis
  • Alpinia galanga
  • Mikania micrantha
  • Tephrosia purpurea
  • Astragalus bicuspis
  • Papaver nudicaule
  • Syzygium zeylanicum
  • Premna corymbosa
  • Lilium polyphyllum
  • Pavetta zeylanica
  • Abelmoschus angulosus var. grandiflorus
  • Decaschistia trilobata
  • Chlorophytum borivilianum
  • Zornia diphylla
  • Elettaria cardamomum
  • Tecomella undulata
  • Acalypha lanceolata
  • Pentanema indicum
  • Selinum wallichianum
  • Impatiens balsamina var. micrantha
  • Dianella ensifolia
  • Ziziphus glabrata
  • Themeda anathera
  • Cosmos bipinnatus
  • Impatiens rupicola var. nataliae
  • Barleria terminalis
  • Bulbophyllum aureoflavum
  • Linociera malabarica
  • Rumex dentatus
  • Quisqualis malabarica
  • Erythroxylum lanceolatum
  • Hedyotis coccinea
  • Crinum woodrowii
  • Memecylon lushingtonii
  • Strobilanthes foliosa
  • Chionanthus leprocarpus var. courtallensis
  • Myosoton aquaticum
  • Ophiorrhiza brunonis
  • Asystasia crispata
  • Solanum seaforthianum
  • Hyptis capitata
  • Prunella vulgaris
  • Canscora perfoliata
  • Rhapis excelsa
  • Grewia asiatica
  • Castanea sativa
  • Grewia villosa
  • Phyllanthus macraei
  • Eragrostis japonica
  • Bergenia ciliata
  • Crotalaria calycina
  • Zornia diphylla
  • Ceropegia rollae
  • Polygala abyssinica
  • Drosera burmanni
  • Viscum ramosissimum
  • Bauhinia monandra
  • Ranunculus trichophyllus
  • Cassiope fastigiata
  • Trianthema triquetra var. triquetra
  • Senna spectabilis
  • Ixora monticola
  • Indigofera constricta
  • Glyptopetalum grandiflorum
  • Pleione praecox
  • Nothopegia heyneana
  • Impatiens kodachadriensis
  • Terminalia paniculata
  • Schefflera arboricola
  • Rapanea wightiana
  • Blumea malcolmii
  • Citrullus colocynthis
  • Garcinia travancorica
  • Amomum muricatum
  • Bupleurum lanceolatum
  • Oberonia brunoniana
  • Dinebra retroflexa
  • Oberonia santapaui
  • Parishia insignis
  • Pouzolzia pentandra
  • Glycosmis pentaphylla
  • Archidendron nielsenianum
  • Solanum viarum
  • Saccharum spontaneum
  • Utricularia striatula
  • Hygrophila ringens
  • Calamus tenuis
  • Cuscuta chinensis
  • Vigna khandalensis
  • Carissa spinarum
  • Kyllinga bulbosa
  • Impatiens lucida
  • Rungia elegans
  • Platanthera edgeworthii
  • Grewia hirsuta
  • Artocarpus lacucha
  • Oxalis corniculata
  • Bryophyllum pinnatum
  • Barringtonia acutangula
  • Orobanche alba
  • Jatropha curcas
  • Miliusa nilagirica
  • Orthosiphon comosus
  • Dodonaea viscosa
  • Zornia diphylla
  • Tephrosia villosa
  • Calophyllum apetalum
  • Lasianthus capitulatus
  • Ludwigia octovalvis subsp. sessiliflora
  • Hymenosporum flavum
  • Croton bonplandianus
  • Debregeasia longifolia
  • Pennisetum polystachion
  • Tecoma stans
  • Justicia glabra
  • Anagallis arvensis
  • Potentilla nepalensis
  • Psychotria nilgiriensis
  • Hibiscus calyphyllus
  • Emilia ramulosa
  • Centaurium meyeri
  • Rubus biflorus
  • Alstroemeria aurea
  • Ixora sivarajiana
  • Cinnamomum tamala
  • Phyllanthus debilis
  • Cassia indochinensis
  • Euryale ferox
  • Impatiens dalzellii
  • Swertia corymbosa
  • Merremia umbellata
  • Indigofera prostrata
  • Asclepias curassavica
  • Crotalaria vestita
  • Drypetes porteri
  • Luisia macrantha
  • Anisomeles heyneana
  • Flemingia rollae
  • Nepeta discolor
  • Macrosolen capitellatus
  • Epipremnum aureum
  • Asphodelus tenuifolius
  • Nepenthes khasiana
  • Macroptilium lathyroides var. semierrectum
  • Calamus rotang
  • Vernonia anthelmintica
  • Gossypium hirsutum
  • Senna multijuga
  • Olea paniculata
  • Smithia sensitiva
  • Phyllanthus leschenaultii
  • Pandanus fascicularis
  • Oberonia platycaulon
  • Calanthe puberula
  • Cullenia exarillata
  • Osbeckia muralis
  • Wrightia tinctoria
  • Jacquemontia pentanthos
  • Pterocarpus indicus
  • Catunaregam spinosa
  • Vitis reticulata
  • Garcinia wightii
  • Zephyranthes carinata
  • Cirsium arvense
  • Gymnostachyum canescens
  • Peristylus plantagineus
  • Indigofera oblongifolia
  • Solanum americanum
  • Bombax ceiba
  • Hemidesmus indicus var. indicus
  • Bryophyllum pinnatum
  • Rubus fairholmianus
  • Aegiceras corniculatum
  • Pyrus communis
  • Eranthemum capense var. concanense
  • Pueraria phaseoloides
  • Neuropeltis malabarica
  • Carallia brachiata
  • Gongronema napalense
  • Impatiens minor var. hirsuta
  • Tragia muelleriana var. unicolor
 
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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