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

 
 
  • Andrographis paniculata
  • Archontophoenix alexandrae
  • Dunbaria ferruginea
  • Pittosporum napaulense
  • Cuscuta chinensis
  • Bidens pilosa
  • Allamanda neriifolia
  • Cucurbita moschata
  • Crinum woodrowii
  • Acacia eburnea
  • Eugenia bracteata
  • Moringa concanensis
  • Barleria involucrata var. involucrata
  • Crotalaria verrucosa
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica
  • Cytisus scoparius
  • Aneilema ovalifolium
  • Litsea ghatica
  • Impatiens grandis
  • Potamogeton nodosus
  • Gymnosporia montana
  • Launaea sarmentosa
  • Rapanea thwaitesii
  • Vernonia comorinensis
  • Pedicularis zeylanica
  • Garcinia talbotii
  • Beilschmiedia wightii
  • Holoptelea integrifolia
  • Gardneria ovata
  • Acrocarpus fraxinifolius
  • Impatiens cordata
  • Schizachyrium brevifolium
  • Erythropalum scandens
  • Gymnosporia montana
  • Plantago asiatica
  • Ixora elongata
  • Nervilia plicata
  • Nothapodytes nimmoniana
  • Platanthera susannae
  • Uncaria sessilifructus
  • Agasthiyamalaia pauciflora
  • Lantana wightiana
  • Arundinella leptochloa
  • Rungia laeta
  • Croton laccifer
  • Casearia ovata
  • Ligularia fischeri
  • Croton bonplandianus
  • Uvaria lurida
  • Ellertonia rheedii
  • Pogostemon myosuroides
  • Walsura trifoliolata var. trifoliolata
  • Gomphocarpus physocarpus
  • Diplocentrum recurvum
  • Cassia renigera
  • Tropaeolum majus
  • Aeschynomene americana
  • Tetrastigma gamblei
  • Tetrastigma gamblei
  • Astragalus hoffmeisteri
  • Gymnosporia wightiana
  • Porana racemosa
  • Christisonia calcarata
  • Rosa webbiana
  • Acacia sinuata
  • Tamarix dioica
  • Utricularia graminifolia
  • Sonerila parameswaranii
  • Zinnia peruviana
  • Anisomeles indica
  • Euphorbia concanensis
  • Miliusa wightiana
  • Corydalis meifolia
  • Psychotria anamallayana
  • Sphaeranthus indicus
  • Couroupita guianensis
  • Melastoma normale
  • Wodyetia bifurcata
  • Anamirta cocculus
  • Lobelia leschenaultiana
  • Ixora monticola
  • Chonemorpha fragrans
  • Ziziphus nummularia
  • Cyclea peltata
  • Euonymus fimbriatus
  • Adenoon indicum
  • Rhynchosia minima
  • Cautleya spicata
  • Randia uliginosa
  • Datura metel
  • Centaurium meyeri
  • Kingiodendron pinnatum
  • Anthocephalus chinensis
  • Cissus pallida
  • Mucuna sanjappae
  • Phyllanthus chandrabosei
  • Dendrocalamus strictus
  • Chionanthus ramiflorus
  • Randia candolleana
  • Gardneria ovata
  • Hydrocotyle javanica
  • Rhododendron nilagiricum
  • Ptychosperma macarthurii
  • Cocculus laurifolius
  • Capparis rotundifolia
  • Carissa carandas
  • Ficus arnottiana
  • Acanthephippium bicolor
  • Grewia orbiculata
  • Impatiens balsamina var. micrantha
  • Hemigraphis crenata
  • Cremanthodium arnicoides
  • Chamaecrista absus
  • Thalictrum alpinum
  • Dioscorea pentaphylla
  • Flemingia nilgheriensis
  • Leptostachya wallichii
  • Achyranthes coynei
  • Piper longum
  • Flacourtia montana
  • Capparis zeylanica
  • Hyophorbe verschaffeltii
  • Curculigo orchioides
  • Abutilon persicum
  • Tephrosia hirta
  • Gliricidia sepium
  • Cudrania cochinchinensis
  • Physalis micrantha
  • Buxus wallichiana
  • Ceropegia sahyadrica
  • Meyenia hawtayneana
  • Euphorbia corrigioloides
  • Angelonia biflora
  • Dioscorea wallichii
  • Crotalaria hebecarpa
  • Canna indica
  • Anisomeles heyneana
  • Knoxia sumatrensis
  • Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides
  • Arisaema flavum
  • Premna serratifolia
  • Cinnamomum riparium
  • Sonchus asper
  • Hedychium aurantiacum
  • Potentilla anserina
  • Belamcanda chinensis
  • Polygala erioptera
  • Rondeletia odorata
  • Lagerstroemia indica
  • Aeschynanthus perrottetii
  • Albizia procera
  • Dimorphocalyx lawianus
  • Stenosiphonium parviflorum
  • Luffa aegyptiaca
  • Fagonia indica
  • Impatiens munnarensis
  • Phyllanthus rheedei
  • Hedysarum kumaonense
  • Hydnocarpus pentandrus
  • Leucas biflora
  • Hygrophila ringens
  • Basella alba
  • Petiveria alliacea
  • Cyphostemma auriculatum
  • Symplocos anamallayana
  • Polygonatum verticillatum
  • Clerodendrum serratum var. dentatum
  • Alocasia macrorrhizos
  • Dypsis decaryi
  • Diospyros nilagirica
  • Archidendron clypearia
  • Atuna travancorica
  • Eurya nitida
  • Hyssopus officinalis
  • Arachis pintoi
  • Ceropegia ensifolia
  • Malus pumila
  • Clerodendrum splendens
  • Coffea canephora
  • Oxygonum sinuatum
  • Arisaema tortuosum var. neglectum
  • Saraca asoca
  • Galium asperuloides
  • Balanites aegyptiaca
  • Pogonatherum paniceum
  • Launaea nudicaulis
  • Pluchea tomentosa
  • Rhodiola fastigiata
  • Galinsoga quadriradiata
  • Trichurus monsoniae
  • Orophea uniflora
  • Rhus succedanea
  • Rungia pectinata
  • Cassytha filiformis
  • Commiphora caudata var. pubescens
  • Argyreia osyrensis
  • Calliandra haematocephala
  • Rotala floribunda
  • Turpinia malabarica
  • Dyschoriste vagans
  • Adenoon indicum
  • Ziziphus glaberrima
  • Capsella bursa-pastoris
  • Euphorbia cyathophora
  • Chiloschista glandulosa
  • Ceropegia odorata
 
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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