{"id":199216,"date":"2022-08-08T18:42:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=199216"},"modified":"2022-08-08T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:12:15","slug":"indian-virtual-herbarium-biggest-database-of-countrys-flora-is-a-global-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-virtual-herbarium-biggest-database-of-countrys-flora-is-a-global-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Virtual Herbarium, biggest database of country\u2019s flora, is a global hit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndian Virtual Herbarium, biggest database of country\u2019s flora, is a global hit\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b>on<b> 7th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the \u2018Mann Ki Baat \u2018episode, the Prime Minister talked about the Indian Virtual Herbarium.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Indian Virtual Herbarium?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Developed by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Botanical Survey of India(BSI)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a digital database of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">plants and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preserved parts of plants <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with labelled information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The herbarium provides information on plants in different categories such as Cryptogams (spore-bearing plants). Phanerogams (seed-bearing plants). Both the groups are again divided into two categories which include genera; specimen and type specimens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Each record in the digital herbarium includes an image of the preserved plant specimen, scientific name, collection locality, and collection date, collector name, and barcode number.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The digital herbarium also includes features to extract the data State-wise, and users can search plants of their own States, which will help them identify regional plants and in building regional checklists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This is the biggest virtual database of flora in the country. Moreover, this database also has immense use in plant identification, systematics studies and ecological studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndian Virtual Herbarium, biggest database of country\u2019s flora, is a global hit\u201d published in PIB on 7th August 2022. What is the News? In the \u2018Mann Ki Baat \u2018episode, the Prime Minister talked about the Indian Virtual Herbarium. What is Indian Virtual Herbarium? Developed by: Botanical Survey&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-virtual-herbarium-biggest-database-of-countrys-flora-is-a-global-hit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian Virtual Herbarium, biggest database of country\u2019s flora, is a global hit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-199216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}