The floral diagram is always drawn circular in outline. The different floral whorls are represented in concentric circles, the sepals on the outermost circle, then the petals, the stamens and carpels towards the inner side (Fig. 11.2 & 11.3). The first step to draw a floral diagram is to examine mature floral buds which are due to open shortly but [...]
Under mentioned is the list of some major herbaria of the world, along with the number of their specimen holdings as worked out by Holmgren et al. (1981): 1. Museum of Natural History, Paris..................................................................................... 10million 2. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.................................... 6 million 3. Komarov Botanical Institute Leningrad.......................................................................... 5.7 million 4. Conservatory and Botanical Garden, Geneva............................................................... 5 million 5. Combined Herbaria, [...]
Botanical gardens and Herbaria are important places of systematic study and research on flora of the region. These are the places of great academic and economic importance. A brief account of botanical gardens and herbaria follows. Botanical Gardens: Botanical gardens are the institutions that maintain the living plant collections of different varieties of plants, including the ornamental and cultivated ones, [...]