Question

Mention five important herbaria.

Answer 1

Herbarium is a store house of preserved plant materials in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper or may also be stored in boxes or kept in alcohol, etc. along with all essential associated data.

Complete answer:
The five important herbaria are listed below:

National museum of Natural history (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle), Paris.
New York Botanical Garden (NY)
Komarov Botanical Institute (Russia)
Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, England, UK)
National Botanical Research Institute (Lucknow, India)

Additional Information:
> National museum of Natural history, Paris.
Ranks among the world’s foremost natural history institutes.
Including more than 11 million specimens, obtained from all over the world, comprising some very important collections from as early as the 16th century.
World’s most extensive plant collections
Also Known as the Paris Herbarium.

New York Botanical Garden (NY)
The New York Botanical Garden is an advocate for the plant kingdom, that contains a landscape with over one million living plants.
> Komarov Botanical Institute (Russia)
The Komarov Herbarium numbers more than 6 million specimens from all over the world with about quarter of million specimens among them from Latin America.
Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, England, UK)
Unique history, rich architectural legacy, botanic collections , diverse historic landscape, and position as one of the world’s leading botanic gardens for education & scientific research.
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is a world-leading scientific organization.
> National Botanical Research Institute (Lucknow, India)
NBRI was set up as the National Botanic Gardens (NBG) by Professor K. N. Kaul in Uttar Pradesh.
It is the third largest in the country, contains 2, 86, 927 specimens:
1, 00, 369 specimens of angiosperms
500 to gymnosperms
5,258 to pteridophytes
15,000 to bryophytes
2473 to algae
1,47,827 to lichens
The herbarium also holds about 820 type photographs.

Note: In the Herbarium, the collections have been arranged according to Bentham and Hooker’s system of classification.