INDIAN VIRTUAL HERBARIUM- BIGGEST DATABASE OF INDIA'S FLORA
The Botanical Survey of India (BSI) was established in 1890 with the objectives of exploring the plant resources of the country and identifying plant species with economic virtue. In 1954, the Government reorganised the BSI with the objectives of (1) undertaking intensive floristic surveys and collecting accurate and detailed information on the occurrence, distribution, ecology and economic utility of plants in the country; (2) collecting, identifying and distributing materials that may be of use to educational and research institutions; and (3) acting as the custodian of authentic collections in well planned herbaria and documenting plant resources in the form of local, district, state and national flora. With highly diverse geographical conditions as in the vast stretches of lofty Himalayan mountains; tablelands and plateaus in the Vindhyan ranges and the Western and Eastern Ghats; the deep valleys and foot-hills of Assam; Central Indian high-lands; the alluvial plains of North...