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University of Poonch Rawalakot Herbarium (University of Poonch Rawalakot-POONCH)

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
Collection Statistics
  • 64 specimen records
  • 17 (27%) georeferenced
  • 3 (5%) with images (3 total images)
  • 63 (98%) identified to species
  • 30 families
  • 45 genera
  • 51 species
  • 51 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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