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

 
 
  • Verbena rigida
  • Habenaria foliosa
  • Indigofera coerulea
  • Calamus lacciferus
  • Neolitsea cassia
  • Vetiveria zizanioides
  • Abelmoschus angulosus var. angulosus
  • Barleria stocksii
  • Vanda coerulea
  • Rapanea thwaitesii
  • Alysicarpus beddomei
  • Pouzolzia bennettiana
  • Melaleuca leucadendra
  • Canavalia virosa
  • Leucas zeylanica var. zeylanica
  • Arundinella ciliata
  • Anaphalis contorta
  • Habenaria marginata var. marginata
  • Nepeta longibracteata
  • Spathoglottis plicata
  • Indotristicha ramosissima
  • Lippia javanica
  • Anisochilus dysophylloides
  • Morus alba
  • Alphonsea lutea
  • Ceropegia pullaiahii
  • Dunbaria heynei
  • Soymida febrifuga
  • Pistia stratiotes
  • Gomphia serrata
  • Oberonia chandrasekharanii
  • Eupatorium riparium
  • Sauropus quadrangularis
  • Hydrocotyle conferta
  • Trigonella foenum-graecum
  • Boesenbergia tiliifolia
  • Crotalaria evolvuloides
  • Crinum malabaricum
  • Lonicera japonica
  • Aphananthe cuspidata
  • Salacca zalacca
  • Sapindus trifoliatus
  • Acacia nilotica subsp. indica
  • Jatropha tanjorensis
  • Lepisanthes tetraphylla
  • Rauvolfia serpentina
  • Litsea deccanensis
  • Vallaris solanacea
  • Rauvolfia serpentina
  • Lactuca dolichophylla
  • Humboldtia brunonis
  • Ceropegia huberi
  • Pavetta siphonantha
  • Euphorbia tortilis
  • Achyranthes bidentata
  • Gentiana kurroo
  • Cleome viscosa
  • Calamus tenuis
  • Petrea volubilis
  • Manilkara roxburghiana
  • Acacia nilotica subsp. tomentosa
  • Launaea acaulis
  • Elaeocarpus lanceolatus
  • Pritchardia pacifica
  • Congea tomentosa
  • Hibiscus radiatus
  • Impatiens parasitica
  • Acacia nilotica
  • Anemone vitifolia
  • Elatostema cuneatum
  • Eucalyptus leucoxylon
  • Teramnus labialis
  • Achyranthes aspera
  • Lasianthus acuminatus
  • Canavalia gladiata
  • Stylosanthes hamata
  • Actinorhytis calapparia
  • Anemone rupicola
  • Atuna travancorica
  • Bidens biternata
  • Balanites roxburghii
  • Chlorophytum borivilianum
  • Delphinium nordhagenii
  • Androsace globifera
  • Tephrosia purpurea
  • Cyanotis tuberosa var. adscendens
  • Tragia plukenetii
  • Glyptopetalum lawsonii
  • Litsea quinqueflora
  • Globba orixensis
  • Themeda triandra
  • Lonchocarpus sericeus
  • Aeschynanthus perrottetii
  • Ormosia travancorica
  • Hopea ponga
  • Goodyera biflora
  • Impatiens hensloviana
  • Jatropha tanjorensis
  • Caesalpinia bonduc
  • Thottea sivarajanii
  • Polygonum polystachyum
  • Ipomoea aquatica
  • Dendrobium heterocarpum
  • Azadirachta indica
  • Selinum vaginatum
  • Cuscuta reflexa
  • Senecio neelgherryanus
  • Caralluma truncatocoronata
  • Priva cordifolia
  • Cosmos caudatus
  • Philadelphus tomentosus
  • Argyreia cymosa
  • Maerua arenaria
  • Diospyros chloroxylon
  • Hymenosporum flavum
  • Arisaema tortuosum var. neglectum
  • Caralluma adscendens var. fimbriata
  • Pancratium triflorum
  • Radermachera xylocarpa
  • Typhonium flagelliforme
  • Wolffia arrhiza
  • Capsicum annuum
  • Peristylus lawii
  • Hybanthus enneaspermus
  • Tetrastigma lanceolarium
  • Mesua ferrea
  • Parmentiera cereifera
  • Bactris major
  • Utricularia babui
  • Rungia laeta
  • Smilax wightii
  • Ophiorrhiza brunonis
  • Senecio scandens
  • Vanda spathulata
  • Hymenodictyon orixense
  • Cissus elongata
  • Leptonychia caudata
  • Premna latifolia
  • Pholidota pallida
  • Dovyalis caffra
  • Oxyria digyna
  • Cuscuta europaea
  • Hibiscus tiliaceus
  • Ochreinauclea missionis
  • Phalaenopsis mysorensis
  • Commelina paludosa
  • Micromelum minutum
  • Euphorbia notoptera
  • Millingtonia hortensis
  • Lablab purpureus
  • Indigofera trita var. maffei
  • Capparis spinosa
  • Morus alba
  • Habenaria virens
  • Maurandya barclaiana
  • Dolichandrone atrovirens
  • Melaleuca leucadendra
  • Senna alexandrina
  • Rungia laeta
  • Barleria nitida
  • Stachytarpheta mutabilis
  • Spinifex littoreus
  • Dalbergia foliolosa
  • Lindernia rotundifolia
  • Oreorchis indica
  • Glyptopetalum grandiflorum
  • Lepidagathis fasciculata
  • Thelepaepale ixiocephala
  • Peliosanthes teta
  • Cerastium cerastoides
  • Dracaena reflexa
  • Tecomella undulata
  • Cinnamomum verum
  • Cryptolepis grandiflora
  • Dichapetalum gelonioides
  • Verbena rigida
  • Crotalaria quinquefolia
  • Ensete glaucum
  • Impatiens goughii
  • Atylosia goensis
  • Strychnos wallichiana
  • Dendrophthoe falcata var. pubescens
  • Cicer microphyllum
  • Abelmoschus moschatus
  • Senna alexandrina
  • Clausena indica
  • Stereospermum colais var. Colais
  • Eranthemum pulchellum
  • Xylia xylocarpa
  • Dyssodia tenuifolia
  • Adansonia digitata
  • Micromeria biflora
  • Tephrosia candida
  • Cajanus crassus
  • Lafoensia microphylla
  • Curcuma neilgherrensis
  • Cirsium arvense
  • Anemone obtusiloba
  • Ehretia laevis
  • Holboellia latifolia
  • Moringa concanensis
  • Plectranthus caninus
  • Launaea nudicaulis
  • Hackelia uncinata
  • Cleome speciosa
 
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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