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The Herbarium of TBGRI was established
in 1979 and currently recognized internationally with the
acronym TBGT. It comprises 20,500 specimens of flowering plants
and 10,000 specimens of mushroom group for ready reference.
The collection includes nearly 2000 specimens collected by
Stalwarts and distinguished botanists of yesteryears like
Beddome, Bourdillon, Narayanaswamy, Sankara Iyer, Venkobarao
etc. In view of catering the taxonomic study the Bioinformatics
and Taxonomic groups of TBGRI jointly started the digitizing
of the valuable specimens in 2009 and made availabe on the
web for ready reference and further interaction.
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