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- Title
A need for online herbaria in India.
- Authors
Datar, Mandar N.; Ghate, Vinaya S.
- Abstract
The article reports on the need of online herbaria in India. It states that herbarium is the fundamental documentation of the diversity of plants which involves drying and preserving plant specimens in a paper sheet along with the plants' information. India has rich diversity of plants including the 17,000 species of flowering plants which makes it difficult for researcher to visit each herbarium. It mentions that digitization or posting herbaria online is the key to solve the problem.
- Subjects
INDIA; BOTANICAL specimens; COLLECTION &; preservation of plant specimens; PLANTS; HERBARIA; COMPUTER network resources
- Publication
Current Science (00113891), 2009, Vol 97, Issue 4, p470
- ISSN
0011-3891
- Publication type
Article