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The National Herbarium is an herbarium, located in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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| Type | Herbarium |
| Location | Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Opened | 1975 |
| Collections | ~100,000 |
History and collection
editThe largest herbarium in Pakistan, it was established in 1975 with Dr. Ralph Randles Stewart's collection as its initial beginning.[1] It has a collection of over 100,000 plants. The plants in the herbarium are divided into magnoliophytes (dicotyledons and monocotyledons), gymnosperms, and pteridophytes (or ferns) and they are placed according to families, genera; and species arranged in alphabetical order.
See also
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- [1] Pakistani biodiversity
References
edit- ^ Tribsch, Andreas; Frahm, Jan-Peter; Eggers, Jens (February 2002). Schmid, Rudolf (ed.). "Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen". Taxon. 51 (1): 221. doi:10.2307/1555001. JSTOR 1555001 – via ResearchGate.
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