Open Herbarium

The herbarium of the Fatima Jinnah Government Postgraduate College for Women was established in 2018 to support the educational and research activities of the College and to help document and promote knowledge of the flora of the Western Himalayas.

Abbottabad is an essential gateway to northern Pakistan and has three mountain ranges, the Himalayas, Hindukush, and Karakoram. It is famous for its scenic beauty, moderate climate and educational institutions. The Department of Botany established the Herbarium of Government Post Graduate College Mandian Abbottabad in 2022. The collection had 1000 specimens, By 2023, the collection will be increased to  2000 specimens and the decision was made to register it with Index herbariorum and to start sharing its holdings with the world via OpenHerbarium.

Hazara University is located on the crossroads of the ancient civilization of Gandhara and Ashoka and is on one of the Silk Routes connecting the Indian sub-continent with China and Central Asia. The University was founded in 2001 and has had a strong floristic program since that time. Today, its herbarium includes about 18,000 species and includes all plant groups other than algae. Its primary geographic focus is Northern Pakistan, a mountainous area that includes three major mountain ranges, the Hindu Kush, Karakorum, and Western Himalaya. It started sharing its specimen data via OpenHerbarium and GBIF in 2021.

The herbarium of Islamia College Peshawar is one of the oldest in Pakistan. It houses about 15,000 specimens of angiosperms, gymnosperms, pteridophytes, bryophytes, and algae. It is used for both teaching and research.

The National Herbarium of Seychelles came into existence in the early 1960s. The first collections came from M. Charles Jeffrey who was collecting for the Kew Herbarium (K) but left duplicate specimens in the Seychelles. Subsequent collectors have added to the herbarium's holding; other specimens have been obtained through collaboration with the herbarium of the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (P). Today, the collection includes around 6000 specimens of vascular plants.

The University of Chitral was opened in 2017 to meet the ever increasing demand for higher education by people lving in what was then Chitral District. In 2018, the district was divided into two districts, Lower Chitral and Upper Chitral , but the University of Chitral's focus remains the whole of Chitral and its neighboring regions. The herbarium (CHIT) was officially started in 2020. At that time, it had about 1200 specimens that had been collected in different parts of Chitral.  It first began digitizing its specimens in 2023. It includes both pressed and formalin-preserved specimens. A seed bank has also been established. The herbarium is in the initial stages of its development. It was founded in response to the interest recent researchers in plant biology have shown in the region. 

The University of Hargeisa initiated development of a herbarium in April 2015. Later that year it was decided to develop a Natural History Museum of which the herbarium will be a part. The Museum will focus on plants, animals, and fungi of Somaliland. At present, almost all its specimens are of vascular plants but there are a few image-based animal records in the museum. These can be found at http://openherbarium.org/zoo/portal/index.php.