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What are the objectives of Herbarium?

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Objectives of Herbarium :

  • Herbarium is used for identification of plants.
  • Specimen alongwith description on herbarium sheet constitutes a storehouse or repository of knowledge for future reference and research work in the field of plants. Herbarium gives necessary information and plant specimen for better understanding.
  • Study of plant is not interesting and easy when studied by diagrams, photographs and description but herbarium makes it interesting and learning oriented.
  • Some time herbarium is helpful to compare and study- plants from an area if their specimens are systematically arranged in the form of herbarium sheet.
  • Useful to keep specimens of newly described taxa.
  • Helpful to study flora of different places.
  • Ecology of different places can be understood by herbarium.
  • Helpful to identify plants.

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