VIKAS C. TYAGI*, J. SWAMY, N. DIKSHIT AND A. K. ROY
ICAR- Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi-284 003, India
Botanical Survey of India, Deccan Regional Centre, Koti, Hyderabad-500 095, Telangana, India
*(e-mail : tyagiv54@yahoo.in)
(Received : 04 August 2022; Accepted : 10 September 2022)
SUMMARY
The digitization of herbaria and its online access greatly facilitates its access around the world. A virtual herbarium named “Virtual herbarium of IGFRI” of the specimens preserved at ICARIndian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute (IGFRI), Jhansi (UP), India has been developed. This initiative was a gesture of sharing information on plant diversity collected by the institute to make these data available to a broad community of users (scientists, educators, botanical community, general public etc.) via openly accessible, free data portals. The portal was optimized for computers, tablets and mobile platforms. The ICAR- IGFRI housed over 2500 historical collection specimens dating more than 70 years, belonging to 741 species, 344 genera and 62 families. The predominant families with maximum species represented are Poaceae (396), Fabaceae (82), Cyperaceae (40), Asteraceae (26) and Brassicaceae (13). Digitized images are available through https://vbigfri.icar.gov.in/
web address.
Key words: : Collections, database, digitization, IGFRI, specimen, virtual herbarium