Herbarium is a kind of filing system in which dried plant specimens pasted on cardboard sheets are stored systematically according to scientific grouping of plants. There are about 100,000 dried plant specimens in the National herbarium divided in to Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons, Gymnosperms and ferns placed according to families, genera and species arranged in alphabetical order. National Herbarium is the best managed Herbarium in the country regularly curated and updated for nomenclature having over 12000 species from Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asian countries. Fresh collections are regularly incorporated to add plant species not available and areas not represented in the herbarium to update the existing material and information. 

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