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

 
 
  • Guettarda speciosa
  • Decaschistia rufa
  • Spiranthes sinensis
  • Momordica subangulata
  • Schaueria flavicoma
  • Euphorbia pycnostegia
  • Hopea parviflora
  • Kyllinga nemoralis
  • Allium cepa
  • Licuala grandis
  • Saraca thaipingensis
  • Cleistanthus travancorensis
  • Leea macrophylla
  • Oberonia platycaulon
  • Cinnamomum sulphuratum
  • Haematoxylum campechianum
  • Murdannia pauciflora
  • Avicennia officinalis
  • Syzygium occidentale
  • Symplocos cochinchinensis
  • Grewia optiva
  • Caralluma adscendens var. attenuata
  • Melhania incana
  • Murdannia gigantea
  • Argyreia nervosa
  • Ficus religiosa
  • Colquhounia coccinea
  • Indigofera coerulea
  • Mimosa prainiana
  • Seshagiria sahyadrica
  • Magnolia champaca
  • Hyptis suaveolens
  • Pulicaria angustifolia
  • Striga euphrasioides
  • Phlogacanthus thyrsiformis
  • Prenanthes brunoniana
  • Physalis minima
  • Priva cordifolia
  • Parnassia chinensis
  • Amaranthus hybridus
  • Viscum orientale
  • Haldina cordifolia
  • Stachyphrynium spicatum
  • Nicandra physalodes
  • Loeseneriella ovata
  • Vitex altissima
  • Crepis flexuosa
  • Evolvulus glomeratus
  • Centaurium meyeri
  • Tradescantia spathacea
  • Alternanthera sessilis
  • Mitragyna parvifolia
  • Toxocarpus kleinii
  • Acalypha hispida
  • Ormosia travancorica
  • Lathraea squamaria
  • Miliusa tomentosa
  • Mundulea sericea
  • Octotropis travancorica
  • Barringtonia asiatica
  • Erythroxylum monogynum
  • Clerodendrum phlomidis
  • Brassica oleracea
  • Blumea obliqua
  • Stictocardia tiliifolia
  • Synedrella vialis
  • Euphorbia laciniata
  • Dillenia suffruticosa
  • Chamaecrista auricoma
  • Cleome viscosa
  • Toona ciliata
  • Plectranthus urticifolius
  • Kaempferia galanga
  • Boswellia ovalifoliolata
  • Phyllanthus gardnerianus
  • Indigofera cassioides
  • Hypericum mysurense
  • Ficus cyathistipula
  • Chrozophora prostrata
  • Fragaria ananassa
  • Ochlandra scriptoria
  • Eria pauciflora
  • Nymphaea pubescens
  • Platanthera edgeworthii
  • Talauma mutabilis
  • Arachis hypogaea
  • Commelina maculata
  • Sida cordata
  • Oldenlandia corymbosa
  • Senecio grahamii
  • Calotropis procera
  • Sanchezia speciosa
  • Rhynchosia densiflora
  • Agrostistachys borneensis
  • Commelina clavata
  • Hopea erosa
  • Seshagiria sahyadrica
  • Gerbera pusilla
  • Aechmea recurvata
  • Impatiens arguta
  • Memecylon lushingtonii
  • Ammannia multiflora
  • Clerodendrum philippinum
  • Azima tetracantha
  • Chionanthus zeylanica
  • Mollugo pentaphylla
  • Acalypha fruticosa
  • Gardneria ovata
  • Hibiscus vitifolius
  • Thunbergia grandiflora
  • Hopea parviflora
  • Alysicarpus rugosus
  • Pennisetum americanum
  • Cordia macleodii
  • Clerodendrum phlomidis
  • Osbeckia aspera var. wightiana
  • Biophytum candolleanum
  • Dendrobium anamalayanum
  • Cardiocrinum giganteum
  • Syagrus romanzoffiana
  • Cerbera manghas
  • Costus erythrophyllus
  • Bistorta amplexicaulis
  • Rhodiola bupleuroides
  • Impatiens badrinathii
  • Nicotiana glauca
  • Hydrangea heteromalla
  • Viscum nepalense
  • Chamaecrista absus
  • Cipadessa baccifera
  • Grewia orbiculata
  • Indigofera tinctoria
  • Gnaphalium pensylvanicum
  • Phoenix reclinata
  • Gmelina arborea
  • Martynia annua
  • Bridelia montana
  • Schrebera swietenioides
  • Rhododendron lepidotum
  • Grangea maderaspatana
  • Sonneratia caseolaris
  • Ceropegia oculata
  • Saccharum officinarum
  • Bulbophyllum mysorense
  • Hydrocotyle javanica
  • Datura metel
  • Crotalaria willdenowiana
  • Aporosa bourdillonii
  • Garuga pinnata
  • Clivia miniata
  • Casearia wynadensis
  • Reissantia indica
  • Ceropegia pubescens
  • Plectranthus rotundifolius
  • Digitalis lanata
  • Baliospermum montanum
  • Acacia mangium
  • Solena amplexicaulis
  • Impatiens bababudenensis
  • Leptadenia pyrotechnica
  • Syzygium myhendrae
  • Impatiens arguta
  • Vitex altissima
  • Utricularia bifida
  • Cayratia mollissima
  • Blepharis maderaspatensis
  • Diospyros candolleana
  • Cullenia exarillata
  • Zornia diphylla
  • Meineckia longipes
  • Garcinia gummi-gutta
  • Pseuderanthemum malabaricum
  • Andrographis alata
  • Indigofera wightii
  • Habenaria panchganiensis
  • Symphytum officinale
  • Costus erythrophyllus
  • Ptychosperma macarthurii
  • Amherstia nobilis
  • Arundinella nepalensis
  • Syzygium munronii
  • Jasminum azoricum
  • Zingiber anamalayanum
  • Polyscias balfouriana
  • Abrus fruticulosus
  • Cordia monoica
  • Ailanthus triphysa
  • Brachychiton australis
  • Ehretia pubescens
  • Grewia optiva
  • Morinda reticulata
  • Tabernaemontana gamblei
  • Emilia scabra
  • Meiogyne ramarowii
  • Impatiens bababudenensis
  • Toxocarpus kleinii
  • Smithia blanda
  • Neuropeltis malabarica
  • Cissus quadrangularis
  • Iris clarkei
  • Vincetoxicum hirundinaria
  • Gardenia jasminoides
  • Cotoneaster brandisii
  • Jacaranda mimosifolia
  • Malaxis versicolor
  • Lavandula bipinnata
  • Bruguiera cylindrica
  • Barleria strigosa
 
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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