A herbarium is a collection of preserved plants or plant parts, mainly in dried form. These specimens are often used as reference material to define a plant taxon.
        Users of traditional herbarium include Taxonomists, Conservation scientists, students and educators. Because of their restriction in institutions or folders, they usually remain hidden on a global scale. In order to promote its existence and to bring this glory to each eye, the concept of Digital Herbarium has gained the  momentum world wide.
          The ‘Digital Herbarium’ incorporates internet and digital photography technologies to provide an analogous online access. Our main goal is to provide a user friendly information with efficient and easy to use data access via the web.

By publishing the data we will:

• Provide useful information (data and images) without requiring users to physically visit each herbarium

• Increase 'walk in' traffic by giving users a preview of the data before they arrive, and

• Support access regardless of user's botanical skill level.

  In an attempt to start this venture, we have selected only one district (District Jammu) and selected 150 plants species, depending upon their phytosociological dominance in the region. The plants are categorized on the basis of their life forms and are represented with their vernaculars, technical description and ethnobotanical uses. The description is based on published references and are confirmed by personal observations. The digital image library shall reveal the morphological description of the plant.

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