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

 
 
  • Bactris major
  • Simarouba glauca
  • Hydrangea aspera subsp. robusta
  • Eugenia codyensis
  • Spiraea arcuata
  • Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
  • Gnidia glauca
  • Celosia polygonoides
  • Justicia carnea
  • Cynoglossum lanceolatum
  • Chamaedorea seifrizii
  • Oxygraphis endlicheri
  • Roscoea purpurea
  • Peristylus aristatus
  • Ranunculus trichophyllus
  • Hardwickia binata
  • Silene viscosa
  • Pereskia grandiflora
  • Ceropegia pullaiahii
  • Momordica subangulata
  • Cajanus crassus
  • Uraria picta
  • Liparis biloba
  • Pseuderanthemum reticulatum
  • Indigofera linifolia var. linifolia
  • Magnolia champaca
  • Bauhinia roxburghiana
  • Rhododendron lepidotum
  • Lawsonia inermis
  • Gynura crepidioides
  • Hibiscus tiliaceus
  • Jasminum ritchiei
  • Globba ophioglossa
  • Nicotiana tabacum
  • Tetrastigma muricatum
  • Jatropha heynei
  • Sapindus trifoliatus
  • Lasianthus capitulatus
  • Sibbaldia parviflora
  • Smithia venkobarowii
  • Acer cappadocicum
  • Plecospermum spinosum
  • Hoya pauciflora
  • Sambucus nigra
  • Begonia malabarica
  • Hygrophila auriculata
  • Leucosceptrum canum
  • Symplocos anamallayana
  • Tylophora indica var. glabra
  • Pterospermum diversifolium
  • Anemone rivularis
  • Phyllanthus macraei
  • Parmentiera cereifera
  • Balanites aegyptiaca
  • Memecylon terminale
  • Calamus nagbettai
  • Clinopodium vulgare
  • Cyananthus lobatus
  • Emilia sonchifolia
  • Zingiber neesanum
  • Heritiera littoralis
  • Salvia farinacea
  • Hedychium greenii
  • Ludwigia octovalvis
  • Begonia crenata
  • Viola inconspicua
  • Viola inconspicua
  • Scurrula parasitica
  • Eragrostis viscosa
  • Oxalis acetosella
  • Mussaenda glabrata
  • Chrysophyllum roxburghii
  • Stachytarpheta urticifolia
  • Pennisetum purpureum
  • Gymnema hirsutum
  • Vernonia arborea
  • Hydrocotyle javanica
  • Rapanea thwaitesii
  • Sigesbeckia orientalis
  • Haldina cordifolia
  • Trichodesma inaequale
  • Alternanthera pungens
  • Byrsonima crassifolia
  • Flacourtia indica
  • Morinda angustifolia
  • Neolitsea zeylanica
  • Xanthosoma sagittifolium
  • Blumea obliqua
  • Rhodiola heterodonta
  • Ixora sivarajiana
  • Helianthus annuus
  • Elytraria acaulis
  • Pterospermum heyneanum
  • Filicium decipiens
  • Byttneria herbacea
  • Rubus hypargyrus
  • Hydrolea zeylanica
  • Rotala serpyllifolia
  • Verbena rigida
  • Mikania micrantha
  • Ficus arnottiana
  • Senecio grahamii
  • Quercus ilex
  • Artemisia vulgaris
  • Tetrastigma leucostaphylum
  • Cassia renigera
  • Mahonia acanthifolia
  • Avicennia officinalis
  • Perilla frutescens
  • Ipomoea indica
  • Microstegium fasciculatum
  • Normanbya normanbyi
  • Cissus heyneana
  • Agave angustifolia
  • Thunbergia alata
  • Tribulus terrestris
  • Phoenix roebelenii
  • Passiflora vitifolia
  • Lippia javanica
  • Oxytropis cachemiriana
  • Cleome aspera
  • Desmodium rotundifolium
  • Malpighia glabra
  • Rumex dentatus
  • Sonchus asper
  • Montanoa grandiflora
  • Acacia nilotica subsp. tomentosa
  • Abrus fruticulosus
  • Maba neilgerrensis
  • Artocarpus lacucha
  • Brachystelma ciliatum
  • Diospyros ghatensis
  • Ancistrocladus heyneanus
  • Clivia miniata
  • Litsea stocksii
  • Acacia horrida
  • Limnophila heterophylla
  • Annona reticulata
  • Chrysophyllum lanceolatum
  • Clematis wightiana
  • Murraya paniculata
  • Minuartia kashmirica
  • Stachytarpheta dichotoma
  • Gentiana kurroo
  • Swertia paniculata
  • Spondias indica
  • Foeniculum vulgare
  • Maesa indica
  • Juncus prismatocarpus
  • Coscinium fenestratum
  • Cyanotis adscendens
  • Asphodelus tenuifolius
  • Phoenix loureiroi
  • Pentatropis capensis
  • Rotala rotundifolia
  • Boesenbergia pulcherrima
  • Glochidion tomentosum
  • Erythroxylum monogynum
  • Campanula latifolia
  • Leucas hirta
  • Peltophorum pterocarpum
  • Wendlandia tinctoria subsp. tinctoria
  • Meliosma simplicifolia subsp. pungens
  • Impatiens bababudenensis
  • Xylia xylocarpa
  • Solanum giganteum
  • Peganum harmala
  • Casearia rubescens
  • Pedicularis zeylanica
  • Elaeagnus latifolia
  • Spermacoce hispida
  • Indigofera barberi
  • Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
  • Mallotus beddomei
  • Cassia javanica
  • Macroptilium atropurpureum
  • Eria pseudoclavicaulis
  • Aesculus indica
  • Flickingeria macraei
  • Nicotiana plumbaginifolia
  • Glossostigma diandrum
  • Shuteria involucrata
  • Abrus pulchellus
  • Eriocaulon epedunculatum
  • Achimenes longiflora
  • Impatiens barberi
  • Nilgirianthus heyneanus
  • Chirita hamosa
  • Impatiens scabrida
  • Neptunia triquetra
  • Schefflera stellata
  • Trichilia connaroides
  • Neanotis latifolia
  • Launaea nudicaulis
  • Eranthemum purpurascens
  • Bridelia montana
  • Pterospermum rubiginosum
  • Aporosa octandra
  • Barleria involucrata var. involucrata
  • Murdannia semiteres
  • Nymphoides hydrophylla
  • Phlogacanthus thyrsiformis
  • Koeleria macrantha
  • Justicia gendarussa
  • Ficus dalhousiae
  • Hedyotis shettyi
  • Persicaria microcephala
  • Ficus amplissima
  • Rhodiola heterodonta
 
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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