Quaid-I-Azam University

Name

Quaid-I-Azam University

Herbarium Code

ISL

Current Status

Active

Correspondents

Mohammad Chaudhri, Director
Muhammad Zafar, Botanist and Curator, Cryptogams, zafar@qau.edu.pk
Mushtaq Ahmad, Director of Herbarium, mushtaqflora@hotmail.om

Contact

[92] 51 90643149
Fax: [92] 51 90643138
Email: mushtaqflora@hotmail.com

Address

Herbarium of Pakistan
Department of Plant Sciences
Quaid-I-Azam University
Islamabad, Islamabad 45320
Pakistan
http://herbarium.qau.edu.pk/

Specialty

Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants

Geography: Pakistan, especially northern and northwestern Pakistan (Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Baluchistan, Northern areas, and Azad Kashmir), including Gilgit-Baltistan, Salt Range, Galliyat, Deserts, Sindh, Baluchistan, AJK and Northern Himalayan areas

Notes

Updated April 2017 (Contact information, staff, URL, important collectors, geography updated). The herbarium contains specimens of 150 families of flowering plants along with collections of gymnosperms (conifers) and lower plants (non-seed producing plants) and all of these plant species are entirely indigenous in nature. The collection is currently being digitized, and the herbarium staff building an electronic Herbarium Catalogue containing images of the specimens and information taken from their collection labels.  The overall objective of digitization of the herbarium is to link this national wealth of the country with international research institutes and global web of knowledge.  The oldest specimens were collected some 50 years ago and 52 per cent of all flowering plant genera are represented in the collection.   The herbarium scientists are committed to making this important collection more accessible to botanists and others, wherever they may be, for use in their own projects: particularly in biodiversity, conservation and sustainable development. Currently ongoing projects linked to herbarium include taxonomic studies of wild vegetables, wild edible fruits, biodiesel plants based resources, medicinal plants and pollen flora of Northern Pakistan.

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