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ASU-ALTB

Altai State University Herbarium

Contacts: Polina Gudkova, PDGudkova2017@yandex.ru
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 September 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Altai State University


Bacha Khan University-BKUCH

Bacha Khan University Herbarium

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: db7f37ac-b095-438d-a800-97b8c6f1f6b6
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bacha Khan University

Bahauddin Zakariya University Observation Records

This university has students conducting surveys for individual species. This site it designed to share the data resulting from such surveys. It is currently experimental
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File

Central Herbarium University of Wah

The Central Herbarium University of Wah was established in March 2020 to expand Pakistan’s Plant biodiversity knowledge, scientific excellence, and innovation in plant systematics, conservation, and evolutionary biology and to enhance knowledge, understanding, conservation and, sustainable utilization of Pakistan’s plant biodiversity. The herbarium now includes approximately 900 plant specimens. Visitors include scientists, students, and teachers from universities, colleges, and schools.
Contacts: Jehangir Khan, centralherbarium@uow.edu.pk
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8b9e733c-8a7d-4ca4-9db9-6d8487a38d63
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Wah

Central Siberian Botanical Garden M.G. Popov Herbarium

Contacts: Nataliya Kovtonyuk, knat2008@yandex.ru
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 23 July 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Central Siberian Botanical Garden
Access Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/


Damietta University-DAM

Damietta University Herbarium

Contacts: Sami Rabei, samirabei@du.edu.eg
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bd2410be-985b-461b-a91a-4e4f6db52772
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Damietta University


Government College University, Lahore-GCUSAH

Dr. Sultan Ahmad Herbarium

The Department of Botany is one of the oldest departments in the University, being established in 1912. Prof. Shiv Ram Kashyap, who was the department head from 1912 to 1934, established a museum and herbarium. The herbarium’s holdings included plants from many regions, including China, Indonesia and Philippines, and its collection of liverworts and mosses was considered the largest in the subcontinent at that time. The collection grew to include several hundred specimens of algae, fungi, bryophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms but, when the University of the Punjab was established as a separate institution, most of the specimens were transferred there. The present museum and herbarium are named the Prof. Kashyap Museum and Dr. Sultan Ahmed Herbarium. Both are being actively developed. The Department also has a botanic garden, Botanic Garden GCU, which was founded in 1912 and extends over 7 acres. It has long been recognized for the diversity of its holdings. It is home to Pakistan’s Botanic Gardens Network Secretariat.
Contacts: Dr. Sohaib Muhammad (Incharge); Prof. Dr. Tehreema Iftikhar (Dept. Head - Chairperson.botany@gcu.edu.pk), sohaibs1983@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: eefe3763-1f7b-4782-b6b9-19b4a0ebb9c7
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Government College University


Fatima Jinnah Govt. Postgraduate College-FJPGC

Fatima Jinnah GPC 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.

Curator: Muhammad Khan, sardar786.ssk@gmail.com, +92-310-9170186
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8094be8d-1a93-4c6f-8191-8cc3881b49a8
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Fatima Jinnah Government Postgraduate College for Women

General Observations

Contacts: Mary Barkworth, Mary.Barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: General Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9a36f339-a2a7-463f-bfe2-4ab7a54fea6b
Digital Metadata: EML File


GPGC Mandian Abbottabad-HGPGCM

Government Post Graduate College Mandian Abbottabad Herbarium

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.

Contacts: Afrasiyab Ahmed, afrasiyabalpha@gmail.com, +923095702049
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3615b850-5655-4521-a22f-cab57104f1ed
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Govt. PostGraduate College Mandian Abbottabad


GC Abbottabad-GCABBT

Government Post Graduate College No. 1 Abbottabad Herbarium

Abbottabad is an important gateway to northern Pakistan and three mountain ranges, the Himalaya, Hindukush, and Karakuram. It is famous for its scenic beauty, moderate climate and educational institutions. The Herbarium of Government College Abbottabad was established by the Department of Botany in 1990. At that time, it was the only herbarium in the region. By 2005, the collection had grown to 10,000 specimens, but in October of that year, the area experienced devastating earthquake. The earthquake left many people dead or homeless and damaged much of the area’s infrastructure, including the herbarium. Fortunately, all involved decided that re-establishing and continuing to develop the area’s oldest and only herbarium was important. Consequently, space was set aside for the herbarium in the new BS building funded by the Saudi Government and the staff and students reorganized the surviving specimens in the new facility and began adding to them. By 2022, the collection had grown to 15,000 specimens and the decision was made to register it with Index herbariorum and to start sharing its holdings with the world via OpenHerbarium.
Contacts: Dr. Zafar Jamal, drzafarjamal@gpgc-atd.edu.pk
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a6b86d60-37db-4523-8d9b-59e58c747789
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Government Post Graduate College No. 1 Abbottabad

Government Postgraduate College for Boys Muzzaffarad Herbarium

PGMUZM was established to support the educational and research needs of the college. It houses specimens documenting the floral diversity of AJK and adjacent areas. The herbarium was established in 2015 and is still active. The current focus is on on that vascular and non- vascular plants, fungi and Algae growing in the of state of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and its adjacent areas. Specimens collected from other parts of the country (Pakistan) are also welcomed. The specimens are collected by students in the college's botany program, research scholars and other explorers.
Contacts: Mazhar Hussain, mazharhussain77mh@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 28030331-6bb3-4004-9ee0-7a717e817978
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Government Postgraduate College for Boys Muzzaffarad


Hazara University-HUP

Hazara University Herbarium

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.

Contacts: Abdul Majid, abdulmajidhu@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c8623540-dfd1-4f37-9f14-0161ec307ece
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: Hazara University
Access Rights: Hazara University

Herbarium of vascular plants of the State Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine

The herbarium LWS was established in 1832. Our collection has ca. 120K dried and pressed herbarium specimens of vascular plants and is mainly focused on the western part of Ukraine. However, there are also numerous materials collected from other regions of Ukraine and other countries. The collection was formed during different historic periods, and therefore, besides Ukrainian, contains many Polish, Romanian, Slovakian, and Hungarian vouchers.

Herbarium Curator: Andriy Novikov, novikoffav@gmail.com, +380671720263 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-0112-5070)
Herbarium Keeper: Oleksandr Kuzyarin, kuzyarin@gmail.com (ORCID #: 0000-0002-7728-3665)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6fa347e2-1388-4208-b3da-bf7bd592f6bf
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: State Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine


ICFP-ICFP

Islamia College Fungarium

The fungarium of Islamia College has about 300 specimens. 

Director: Ishtiaq Ahmad, ishtiaqmatta@gmail.com, +923329702607
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Islamia College University
Access Rights: CC-BY


Islamia College Peshawar-ICP

Islamia College Peshawar, Herbarium

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.

Contacts: Dr. Shah Khalid, shahkhalid@icp.edu.pk
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 7e31e440-c453-49b0-ab1f-f4abe9c3d9ee
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Islamia College Peshawar

Marina Olonova's Collections

This collection has been created to enable data storage and label printing before deposition in a herbarium
Contacts: Marina Olonova, olonova@list.ru
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a565ea39-17b9-482d-ab77-5e1ba673c73f
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Marina Olonova


MO

Missouri Botanical Garden

Plants are essential to sustaining the stability and quality of human life on this planet. At the Missouri Botanical Garden, we have dedicated ourselves to helping conserve biological diversity while there is still something left to protect. Our research provides scientific information essential to decision makers, from conservation and land use to social and environmental policy. We have taken the lead in making information widely accessible via the Internet, maintaining the world's largest botanical database and the premier botanical website, TROPICOS. Garden scientists conduct the most productive and geographically widespread botanical research program in the world.
Contacts: Jim Solomon, jim.solomon@mobot.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 October 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Missouri Botanical Garden


National Herbarium, Pakistan-RAW

National Herbarium, Pakistan

The National Herbarium of Pakistan has its origins in R.R. Stewart’s extensive plant collections made between 1912 and 1959. In 1960, Stewart gave his specimens to Eugene Nasir of Gordon College, Rawalpindi, who added more specimens to it. In 1974, the College transferred the expanded collection to the National Agricultural Center, Islamabad, where it became the National Herbarium with E. Nasir as its Director. Today, the National Herbarium has over 100,000 specimens. Most specimens are from Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. In 1970, Nasir and S.I. Ali (Karachi University) began work on the Flora of Pakistan. It was completed in 2021 and treats over 6000 species. The importance of the National Herbarium to the Flora is evident in the number of its specimens cited. Conserving Pakistan’s rich plant heritage is crucial to development of novel drugs and new crops because plants sustain all other forms of life and are a major source of novel therapeutic compounds. The Flora of Pakistan is critical to conservation of plant heritage. Increasing awareness of the importance of this heritage is also important. Drs. Yasin Nasir and Rubina Akhtar contributed to this goal by publishing attractively illustrated works, such as Wildflowers of Pakistan, designed for a general audience. More recently, the National Herbarium established a Botanical Conservatory for native and exotic species of economic importance. It has sections dedicated to hydrophytes, herbs, cacti/succulents, climbers, shrubs and trees and includes about 250 native plant species collected from different regions of country. The conservatory is both attractive and a valuable tool for research and education. Thus Pakistan’s National Herbarium continues to be an important resource for plant identification, research, development of conservation strategies, and increasing awareness of Pakistan’s flora. Making its records available online reflects continued commitment to these goals.
Contacts: Amir Sultan, amirsultan_2000@yahoo.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f788444c-d96b-4e99-bf3b-734c0e614a3c
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (http://www.parc.gov.pk/)

Nepal National Herbarium

The National Herbarium of Nepal is part of the Ministry of Forests and Environment. It was founded in 1960 and currently holds about 165000 speimens
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: cde149a8-04b3-4224-b2d1-20fb895428ff
Digital Metadata: EML File


TSU-TK

P.N. Krylov Herbarium

The P.N. Krylov herbarium of Tomsk State University was founded in 1885. It now holds about 500,000 specimens of bryophytes, lichens, pteridophytes, and seed plants.
Contacts: Irina Gureeva (Head of the Herbarium); Marina Olonova (Poaceae), olonova@list.ru
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a4b23c2b-0185-46ca-95d0-fc511da3be9b
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Tomsk State University


PCSIR-Peshawar-PES

PCSIR-Peshawar Herbarium

The herbarium of PCSIR-Peshawar exists to meet the needs of researchers, students working with plants from various localities of Pakistan. It was established in 1956 and now holds over 10,000 specimens.
Contacts: Dr. Hina Fazal, hina_fazalso@yahoo.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 7f151350-ffab-4dfe-98dc-2d594b7c7837
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: PCSIR Peshawar


Post Graduate College Bannu-BANNU

Post Graduate College Bannu Herbarium

Bannu is located in Waziristan. It is a mountainous region comprising two districts, North Waziristan and South Waziristan that are now included in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. There are no checklists for the region, let alone a flora. It is also poorly represented in the world's herbaria, including those of Pakistan. BANNU was established in 1960 but has only recently (2017) been given the support required to make significant progress in documenting and summarizing Waziristan's florist diversity and its use by local people.
Contacts: Shahid Jamil, shahidberg@uop.edu.pk
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4f0c970b-d12e-451c-84d8-9c45548a7bc8
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Government Post graduate College Bannu


Qarshi Botanical Garden-QARSHI

Qarshi Botanical Garden Herbarium

Qarshi Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. is one of the largest natural products manufacturers in Pakistan. It is a modern and progressive facility that manufactures and markets leading brands which have become household names. Qarshi is engaged in promoting healthy living since five decades. It offers a blend of age-old Oriental and Greek herbal preparations. The botanical garden was established to aid in identification and to help conserve native populations.
Contacts: Muhammad Rashid, rashid.afzal@qarshi.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 89aaa013-ce2b-4e0c-b49e-ccec270feed0
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Qarshi Industries Pvt Ltd
Access Rights: Public Domain


Quaid-i-Azam University-ISL

Quaid-i-Azam University Herbarium

ISL was established in 1974. It is now the largest herbarium in Pakistan having over 180,000 specimens, collected from throughout Pakistan. The oldest specimens were collected over 50 years ago. The herbarium supports and promotes research on a wide range of environmental and biodiversity issues. Its holdings include many important endangered, rare and vulnerable plant species. Currently, the herbarium is being used by projects in taxonomy, molecular systematics, revisions, palynology, diversity of wild vegetables and edible fruits, biofuels, medicinal uses and the flora of different ecosystems within Pakistan. The herbarium’s holdings be consulted by anyone interested. Visitors routinely include foreigners, scientists, herbalists, naturalists, students and teachers from universities, colleges and schools. In 2018, Drs. Mushtaq Ahmad and Muhammad Zafar, assisted by their post-graduate students and funding from the Bioidiversity Information Fund for Asia (BIFA03-47), began digitizing and georeferencing the herbarium’s specimens. A second BIFA grant (BIFA04-046), enabled continuation of that effort so that now (2020-Oct-20) there are 36,208 ISL records accessible via OpenHerbarium and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, of which 24,368 have been georeferenced. Individuals needing to view information for endangered, rare and vulnerable species should contact Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad for permission.
Contacts: Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad, mushtaqflora@hotmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 546763b3-9e23-4d60-8050-525399907c92
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Quaid-i-Azam University


Rawalpindi Women University-RAWWU

Rawalpindi Women University Herbarium

The Rawalpindi Women University Herbarium was formed in 2021. Its focus will be on the algae, fungi, and plants of Pakistan, with an emphasis on those from the junction of the northern mountains with the southern plains.
Contacts: Fozia Khan, brine4f@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3d89957e-7c60-43cf-8075-6680399e848b
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Rawalpindi Women University

Sar-e-khaka (Food market)

The food market located immediately to the south of the Hazara Graveyard on the east side of Mari Abad, an eastern suburb of Quetta. There are several vendors in the area.
Contacts: Ali Rezaye, ali.rezaee88@yahoo.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0e278010-7878-4be1-b40f-1729545b4e0d
Digital Metadata: EML File


Seychelles National Herbarium-SEY

Seychelles National Herbarium

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.

Contacts: Tarah Padayachy; Charles Morel, herbariumsey@gmail.com; charles6422@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0835e3fa-be6f-4d0d-9e60-474a751ff0ab
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Staff of the Seychelles National Herbarium

Smiths on Fourth North

Is a store on Fourth North in Logan.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e469450c-6564-40eb-b574-9444dd9ad700
Digital Metadata: EML File


UAJK-AKASH

University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Herbarium

The herbarium, which was established in 2019, is focused on the flora of Azad Kashmir and northern Pakistan. This floristically rich region encompasses subtropical, temperate, and alpine floras.
Contacts: Tariq Habib, tariqhabib76@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f55f64e5-95bc-4a88-844a-422051245ea6
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir


University of Balochistan-QUETTA

University of Balochistan Herbarium

The herbarium houses vascular plants, algae, fungi, and bryopytes. It has about 1000 specimens.
Contacts: Prof. Dr. Mudassir Asrar, mudassir.asrar@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 74e14f36-7895-4b69-be71-4460a94d4592
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Balochistan
Access Rights: CC 0


University of Chitral-CHIT

University of Chitral Herbarium

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. 

Curator: Hafiz Ullah, hafizullah@uoch.edu.pk, +92 345 918 6835
Digitization Advisor: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu, +1 435-557 2121 (ORCID #: 0000-0001-9785-1538)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a40ce3a4-55ab-40fb-b590-19fe97f44984
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Chitral
Access Rights: CC BY


University of Hargeisa-HARG-S

University of Hargeisa Seed Collection

Sources for seeds of Somaliland's native plants are hard to locate, particularly seeds of species not considered "important". The Somaliland Biodiversity Foundation is promoting the establishment of native species on campus but, to make this possible, it is first necessary to develop a seed source. Seeds in this collection will be imaged the primary purpose in collecting them is to help increase the number and proportion of native species on campus and to encourage research on their germination, growth, and establishment. The Foundation's ultimate goal in establishing the seed collecting is to promote an increase in Somaliland's plant cover, primarily by species native to Somaliland or its immediate neighbors. Such an increase will promote Somaliland's ability to resist the effects of climate change. Many, but not all, of the seeds are documented by voucher specimens in HARG.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: aa479920-2de1-4fd4-9168-6a7b55b7b644
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Hargeisa


University of Karachi-KUH

University of Karachi Herbarium

Contacts: Anjum Perveen, anjum_tahir@hotmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 52c734be-9995-4c2a-a3c5-6a3c7b727062
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Karachi


University of Kotli-KOTLI

University of Kotli Herbarium

The herbarium is in the process of being established(2022). It currently holds about 400 specimens, of algae, bryophytes, fungi (including lichens) and seed plants. 33.48423883547389, 73.90155592833739
Contacts: Tariq Ullah, bhuok@uokajk.edu.pk
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: cb51a7ad-71af-445d-b61c-921aba0e5fb3
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University if Kotli


University of Malakand-BGH

University of Malakand Herbarium

The University of Malakand Botanic Garden and Herbarium is focused on 1) conservation of the local flora both in- and ex-situ; 2) development of a herbarium emphasizing local species; 3) monographic study of local species, particularly those of high value medicinal plants; 4) DNA/Protein genotyping with an emphasis on local species; 5) tissue culture of rare local species to support their conservation and multiplication. The herbarium currently has about 2000 dry specimens from different localities in the Malakand division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. More than 60% of the plants are endemic to Malakand division and acclimated to the environmental conditions of the botanic garden.
Contacts: Mohammad Nisar,, mnshaalpk@yahoo.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: af63c11a-8e9b-40ca-9966-aab2c2e0f886
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Malakand


University Of Okara-UOBH

University of Okara Herbarium

The University of Okara Herbarium was established in 2021.
Contacts: Nidaa Harun, nidaadr@uo.edu.pk
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8457091c-6caf-46cb-b28a-871e461f9883
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Okara


University of Peshawar-PUP

University of Peshawar Herbarium

The University of Peshawar was found in 1950 and its herbarium two years later. It is adjacent to Islamia College, founded in 1913. The Department of Botany has an active program in plant systematics and conservation.
Contacts: Abdur Rashid, drabdurashid@yahoo.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0b689c10-587b-4e09-a105-2af774ad0c95
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Peshawar


University of Poonch Rawalakot-POONCH

University of Poonch Rawalakot Herbarium

POONCH, the herbarium of the University of Poonch Rawalakot was founded in 2016. Its focus will be the plants, fungi, and algae of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It is being developed to meet the needs of area professionals and amateurs in many walks of life. At present, it has a rich collection of medicinally and economically important plants of the Himalaya.
Contacts: Khawaja Shafique Ahmad, ahmadks@upr.edu.pk
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 73b25475-b5a3-4a8f-a416-f40bb01bea87
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Poonch Rawalakot


University of Sargodha-SARGU

University of Sargodha Herbarium

The University of Sargodha herbarium was founded in 2015. Its focus is the Sargodha Division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. It includes four districts: Sargodha, Khushab, Bhakkar, and Mianwali. It is one of the fastest growing areas in Pakistan. The area has very hot (50C) in the summer but can drop to freezing in the winter.
Contacts: Amin Shah, aminullahshah@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 96883c50-800c-45da-af6f-aa8c5fae85ba
Digital Metadata: EML File


University of Sindh Jamshoro-SINDH

University of Sindh Jamshoro Herbarium

The herbarium of the University of Sindh Jamshoro is one of two key components of the Institute of Plant Sciences, the other being establishment of a botanic garden. The herbarium was initiated in the 1950s, primarily as a teaching resource. In 2018, with support from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, it is being transformed into a research herbarium. A key part of this transformation has been identifying its primary goals as 1) documentation of the flora of Sindh and adjacent regions of Balochistan; 2) providing instruction in the importance and preparation of voucher specimens in botanical research; and sharing of what is learned with diverse audiences through multiple outlets. In December 2018, the herbarium began sharing its data via OpenHerbarium, a Symbiota network, and, early in 2019, via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. In 2018, the collection included about 15,000 specimens, essentially all of which are of vascular plants.
Contacts: Dr. Rabia Memon, rabia.memon@usindh.edu.pk
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bbf541d6-e532-4c8c-9ff5-23f8d3d4656d
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Sindh


University of Swat-SWAT

University of Swat Herbarium

The Swat University Herbarium was started in 2015, 5 years after foundation of the university. The Herbarium is located at the main campus of the University at Charbagh Swat. Swat lies at the junction of three major mountain ranges: Himalayas, Hindukush, and Karakorum. It is home to an enormously diverse flora, one that contains Central Asian, European, and Himalayan elements. The focus of the SWAT Herbarium is flora of the Hindukush-Himalayas, Karakorum and northern Pakistan. A high proportion of its taxa are endemic, or nearly endemic, to the region and many of its species are rare. There are also many taxa that are highly valued as medicinal plants. The fungal flora is less well known but it can be expected to have comparable diversity. The Centre for Plant Sciences and Biodiversity is home to experts in several plant groups and macrofungi as well.
Contacts: Dr. Zahid Ullah, zahidmattagmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a354c62f-d8f9-47a9-a775-c3b76c5cafec
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Swat


Women University Mardan-WUM

Women University Mardan Herbarium

The herbarium was initiated in 2022. Its initial focus will be on the plants of Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjacent areas.
Contacts: Professor Dr. Ghazala Yasmeen, vc@wumardan.edu.pk
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 48703046-bb7b-43d6-87d7-206b55e20a58
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Women University Mardan


FoPK

Flora of Pakistan

The Flora of Pakistan is a multi-volume work, started in 1971 at the University of Karachi and now nearing completion with Drs. S.I. Ali and M. Qaiser as lead editors and, since 2000, help from the Missouri Botanical Garden. Each treatment includes specimen citations. The records in this "collection" come from these citations. Each record is georeferenced but only to center of the 2 degree grid given for that record. The uncertainty is 293,295 m so the maps only provide a very coarse grained distribution. Anyone interested in refining the georeference information should contact Dr. Mary Barkworth, Utah State University, who is overseeing the incorporation of these invaluable records into this web site.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: General Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 October 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File


CoAF

Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Afghanistan

In 2012, Prof. Dietrich Podlech compiled a Checklist of the Flowering plants of Afghanistan and made it available online. It listed, for each species, the districts of Afghanistan where it was known to grow. The data in CoAF were obtained by extracting the distributional information from that checklist. Contact information is for Mary Barkworth who apologizes for any errors in the presentation. For questions about the checklist, contact Prof. Podlech (podlech symbol lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 March 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File


University of Hargeisa-HARG

University of Hargeisa Herbarium

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.

Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 2a400f2e-fd2c-4e2e-90c3-b49b557056e4
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Hargeisa

University of Hargeisa Botanic Garden

The Biodiversity Museum of the University of Hargeisa has established a small area in front of the museum for growing succulent plants, thereby facilitating research on their growth, phenology, and biology. Documentation of their growth will occur through imaging, presented on this site, and a spreadsheet.
Contacts: Faisal Jama Gelle, faisaljama24@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0b1f597f-b6ea-42df-b542-7fa189c95d06
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Hargeisa
Access Rights: Public Domain


FoSO

Flora of Somalia, Mats Thulin (Editor)

The Flora of Somalia is a 4 volume work published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The first volume was published in 1993, the last in 2006. It is a multi-authored work contains detailed descriptions, distributional information, identification keys, numerous illustrations, and considerable additional information for each taxon. The distributional information is given in terms of regions. This site offers a view of the distributional information in the flora.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 July 2015
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew


FoEE

Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea

Distribution records from volume 7 (grasses) and part of volume 6 (other monocots) from the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Enabling access to the distribution data from the two volumes is designed to illustrate the value of this method of sharing information. Contact information is for data on this web site.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 July 2015
Digital Metadata: EML File


EA

East African Herbarium

Founded in 1902 in Amani, Tanzania, the East African Herbarium (EA) maintains the largest botanical collection in tropical Africa. It now holds over 1,000,000 plant and fungal specimens. Collections of roots, rhizomes, woods, fruits and seeds too large for standard herbarium sheets are also maintained. EA is a major regional as well as national botanical reference centre. Research focuses primarily on the taxonomy, distribution, use and conservation of East African plants. Investigations have generally been project based, the Indigenous Food Plants Programme and the Coastal Forest Survey being examples. Field surveys have contributed to the Flora of Tropical East Africa (FTEA) and more specialized floras such as those for Kakamega Forest, Coastal forests, Afro- Alpine ecosystems, and moist and dryland hilltops as well as to publications in peer reviewed journals. Digitization of EA collections is ongoing. Type specimens (>4500), endemics (>1100), rare and CITES listed species have already been digitized. Information for them is already online. The major library collection housed in the herbarium is an indispensable research source and the Herbarium's plant identification service is extensively used by local and international researchers as well as by interested members of the public. In 1992, plant Ex Situ and In Situ Conservation programmes were established for the express purpose of ensuring the survival and proliferation of threatened flora. Activities include collection and maintenance of seed accessions for long term storage and propagation. Some of the rare plants, especially succulents and orchids, are preserved at the Nairobi Botanic Garden. The EA herbarium offers training courses in plant conservation, herbarium techniques, and bioinformatics. In addition, over 1500 biology students from universities visit the herbarium for plant taxonomy and conservation talks. Collaboration with other local and international research/academic institutions is welcome.
Contacts: Dr. Itambo Malombe, botany@museums.or.ke
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: National Museums of Kenya


MUST

Al-Mustansiriyah University

The collection is focused on vascular plants of Iraq and surrounding regions.
Contacts: Dr. Hadeel Al-Newani, yassen_h2006@yahoo.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f6fb57f7-c3bd-4303-b44d-aa2433f0075e
Digital Metadata: EML File


FoIQ

Flora of Iraq

The Flora of Iraq started in 1960 as a project of the National Herbarium, Ministry of Agriculture, Baghdad in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. The records presented here are from the specimen citations in the published volumes of the Flora.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a27bc80b-c7dd-4452-be04-c5928130b4ea
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Ministry of Agriculture, Iraq


Barkworth-TRIT

Triticeae

Records in this collection are of specimens on loan to UTC for study by Barkworth.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 108ce82b-3adf-4441-bf77-5632798c92a2
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: Varied; consult owning herbarium

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The records here are a tiny subset of the 7 million specimens at Kew. They have been entered to expand information available through OpenHerbarium for Africa and southwest Asia.
Contacts: Alan Paton, a.paton@kew.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Intermountain Herbarium of Utah State University

ecords in this database are of the vascular plants in the Intermountain Herbarium. Records for fungi, lichens and bryophytes are now being posted to the taxon-specific networks. The geographic focus of the Intermountain Herbarium is the Intermountain Region of western North America but its holdings come from many different countries. It even has one or more specimens from each of the seven continents. The collection is particularly rich in the Scrophulariaceae (traditional sense) and grasses, including voucher specimens of plants used by by the late D.R. Dewey in his cytogenetic studies of the Triticeae.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 June 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Utah State University

Miscellaneous Important Records

This collection is for adding specimen records of important specimens, such as types, located in herbaria that are not contributors to OpenHerbarium. If found on the web, a link will be provided to the primary record.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a32213ad-b962-4e3c-b3f5-b259e4d22002
Digital Metadata: EML File


SEINet

Records from SEINet Network

Records in this collection have been downloaded from SEINet,a US Symbiota herbarium network which is accessible via multiple portals (e.g., ,Intermountainbiota.org. Most records currently in the network are of specimens collected in the US. Records added, and the dates they were added, are Northeastern Africa, Grasses, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Russia [all added July 1-4, 2020].
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 July 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Varied

Kimeu

Records in EA temp are from Kimeu's database of Aristida for Somalia. He has kindly provided them for demonstration purposes. Kimeu is a curator at EA, the national herbarium of Africa.
Contacts: Mbaluka Kimeu, jkmbaluka@yahoo.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 September 2015
Digital Metadata: EML File

Vorontsova Data

The records in this collection come from Dr. Maria Vorontsova who kindly made them available to help demonstrate the potential of the site. They are essentially her research notes. The specimens themselves are in the herbaria listed under "OtherCataloNumbers"
Contacts: Maria Vorontsova, m.vorontsova@kew.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 September 2015
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Maria Vorontsova

Sandbox

Just to try things out during this workshop
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 76aab728-4c32-48f9-ad9d-76fe623638f5
Digital Metadata: EML File

Labels

This exists solely to generate labels. The records will be deleted.
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 41028bf3-47ef-415d-a6c7-50886cbd78da
Digital Metadata: EML File


Images

Image-based observations

This is a collection of image-based observations submitted by general users of this portal.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9a1d2fc7-8f8d-40d7-a2f1-30bd77a06a6a
Digital Metadata: EML File