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 Telangana Tamilnadu Uttarakhand
Uttar Pradesh West Bengal
Neighbouring Countries
Afghanistan Bhutan Bangladesh Myanmar
Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka Tibet
General Family-wise Landscapes

 
 
  • Jacquinia ruscifolia
  • Dendrobium haemoglossum
  • Ficus variegata
  • Hydrocotyle javanica
  • Ixora lanceolaria
  • Terminalia travancorensis
  • Leucas stricta
  • Psychotria nigra
  • Iphigenia stellata
  • Epilobium latifolium
  • Maerua arenaria
  • Cinnamomum malabatrum
  • Elaeocarpus gaussenii
  • Sigesbeckia orientalis
  • Tagetes erecta
  • Artocarpus gomezianus subsp. zeylanicus
  • Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
  • Erythrina stricta
  • Strophanthus gratus
  • Didymocarpus pedicellatus
  • Jatropha heynei
  • Parmentiera cereifera
  • Trillidium govanianum
  • Verbascum chinense
  • Celtis timorensis
  • Erythrina subumbrans
  • Euphorbia cotinifolia
  • Schefflera actinophylla
  • Grewia nervosa
  • Heracleum rigens
  • Geranium pratense
  • Symphytum officinale
  • Ravenia spectabilis
  • Kleinia shevaroyensis
  • Lepidium sativum
  • Peliosanthes teta
  • Cotoneaster microphyllus
  • Excoecaria crenulata
  • Andrographis ovata
  • Linum mysurense
  • Lindelofia stylosa
  • Eragrostiella bifaria
  • Digitalis lanata
  • Chlorophytum borivilianum
  • Casearia graveolens
  • Cassine glauca
  • Pyrus communis
  • Eupatorium riparium
  • Rhizophora apiculata
  • Alpinia purpurata
  • Cryptocoryne cognatoides
  • Polygonum chinense
  • Impatiens bhaskarii
  • Malvastrum coromandelianum
  • Cansjera rheedei
  • Albizia procera
  • Trichodesma inaequale
  • Basella alba
  • Styrax serrulatus
  • Capsicum annuum
  • Smithia purpurea
  • Pongamia pinnata
  • Ipomoea eriocarpa
  • Cissus repanda
  • Neanotis lancifolia
  • Glinus oppositifolius
  • Justicia glauca
  • Pouzolzia wightii
  • Piper trioicum
  • Litsea ghatica
  • Derris benthamii
  • Oropetium thomaeum
  • Manilkara roxburghiana
  • Calamus metzianus
  • Tephrosia candida
  • Caralluma truncatocoronata
  • Nypa fruticans
  • Ariopsis peltata
  • Polygonum capitatum
  • Thunbergia mysorensis
  • Dahlia coccinea
  • Markhamia platycalyx
  • Dendrobium microbulbon
  • Oberonia recurva
  • Dendrocalamus giganteus
  • Lancea tibetica
  • Sophora tomentosa
  • Acanthephippium bicolor
  • Memecylon talbotianum
  • Lagenandra toxicaria
  • Gymnostachyum latifolium
  • Lonchocarpus sericeus
  • Trichodesma zeylanicum
  • Lecanthus peduncularis
  • Caesulia axillaris
  • Kalanchoe olivacea
  • Alnus nepalensis
  • Lobelia nicotianifolia
  • Fagonia indica
  • Psydrax dicoccos var. dicoccos
  • Impatiens pendula
  • Swertia corymbosa
  • Cryptocarya wightiana
  • Cordia myxa
  • Commicarpus boissieri
  • Miliusa leschenaultii
  • Eragrostis ciliaris
  • Vernonia vivekanathanii
  • Hypericum oblongifolium
  • Holoptelea integrifolia
  • Corchorus urticifolius
  • Sida scabrida
  • Sonerila parameswaranii
  • Primula rosea
  • Stellaria patens
  • Morus alba
  • Lepidagathis barberi
  • Phyllanthus narayanswamii
  • Desmodium oojeinense
  • Arisaema flavum
  • Pogostemon heyneanus
  • Zehneria scabra
  • Barringtonia asiatica
  • Aerides maculosa
  • Leontopodium brachyactis
  • Hibiscus hirtus
  • Ceropegia candelabrum var. candelabrum
  • Leucas zeylanica var. zeylanica
  • Euphorbia notoptera
  • Blepharispermum subsessile
  • Stachytarpheta dichotoma
  • Syzygium caryophyllatum
  • Cyanotis burmanniana
  • Hydrangea heteromalla
  • Thunbergia lutea
  • Caesalpinia mimosoides
  • Sansevieria trifasciata
  • Trifolium fragiferum
  • Stachytarpheta urticifolia
  • Luvunga sarmentosa
  • Capparis grandiflora
  • Potentilla atrosanguinea
  • Mackenziea intergrifolia
  • Wedelia urticifolia
  • Oxalis corniculata
  • Anogeissus latifolia
  • Reinwardtiodendron anamalaiense
  • Drimia razii
  • Tephrosia hirta
  • Impatiens jerdoniae
  • Begonia albococcinea
  • Iphigenia stellata
  • Salvadora persica
  • Pedicularis pectinata
  • Mimosa prainiana
  • Genianthus laurifolius
  • Dyssodia tenuifolia
  • Mimosa prainiana
  • Diospyros ovalifolia
  • Alstonia scholaris
  • Aconogonon molle
  • Gentiana kurroo
  • Morus alba
  • Cotoneaster microphyllus
  • Salix disperma
  • Brunfelsia pauciflora
  • Calamus pseudotenuis
  • Humboldtia bourdillonii
  • Sida mysorensis
  • Aganosma cymosa var. cymosa
  • Ophiopogon intermedius
  • Swertia minor
  • Alangium hexapetalum
  • Hippophae rhamnoides subsp. turkestanica
  • Limonia acidissima
  • Indigofera spicata
  • Schleichera oleosa
  • Phyllanthus rotundifolius
  • Blachia denudata
  • Salvadora persica
  • Maurandya barclaiana
  • Neuropeltis malabarica
  • Albizia odoratissima
  • Persicaria runcinata
  • Blachia calycina
  • Maytenus emarginata
  • Centaurium roxburghii
  • Scadoxus multiflorus
  • Eulophia spectabilis
  • Lagenandra ovata
  • Psychotria elongata
  • Jasminum auriculatum
  • Lonchocarpus minimiflorus
  • Citrus medica
  • Ficus beddomei
  • Pleocaulus ritchei
  • Erythrina herbacea
  • Syzygium malaccense
  • Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides
  • Calamus travancoricus
  • Nanothamnus sericeus
  • Kedrostis foetidissima
  • Ophiopogon jaburan
  • Pedicularis bicornuta
  • Geissaspis tenella
  • Stereospermum suaveolens
  • Lepidagathis purpuricaulis
  • Sopubia trifida
 
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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