Description
The Naoroji Godrej Centre for Plant Research (NGCPR) has been conducting quality research and assessment leading to the conservation of plant diversity. The Centre is a house to diverse collection of herbarium specimens collected from various location from 12 states, 1 union territory and 1 island in India. These herbarium specimens are being preserved at the Research Centre facility located near Shirval, District Satara, State Maharashtra, India. Additional information about NGCPR can be accessed at www.ngcpr.org.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,994 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Trivedi S, Nandikar M (2023). Digital Herbarium - NGCPR. Version 1.0. Training Organization. Occurrence dataset. https://training-ipt-b.gbif.org/resource?r=digitalherbarium-ngcpr&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Training Organization. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 05262240-5dc4-4c81-ab83-750af29db17f. Training Organization publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.
Keywords
Occurrence; Digital Herbarium; Herbarium specimens
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Scientist
- Gat 431, Lawkim Campus, Shindewadi
- 7709159907
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-4306
- Metadata Provider
- Scientist
- Gat 431, Lawkim Campus, Shindewadi
- 9421969757
- Point Of Contact
- Scientist
- Gat 431, Lawkim Campus, Shindewadi
- 8412013810
- Owner
- Director
- Gat 431, Lawkim Campus, Shindewadi
- 7709159907
Geographic Coverage
This digital database of herbarium specimens is collected from various locations across India. The geographic coverage includes 12 states (Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Tamilnadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal), one union territory (Puducherry) and one island (Andaman and Nicobar).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [8.724, 72.874], North East [30.687, 93.807] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Description: The digital database repository contains a total of 1994 herbarium specimens consisting of 277 genera belonging to 91 family from 34 order under 2 classes Liliopsida and Magnoliopsida described under phylum Tracheophyta and kingdom Plantae.
| Kingdom | Plantae (Plants) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2010-01-06 / 2021-12-20 |
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Project Data
The Naoroji Godrej Centre for Plant Research (NGCPR) has been conducting quality research and assessment leading to the conservation of plant diversity. The Centre is a house to diverse collection of herbarium specimens collected from various location from 12 states, 1 union territory and 1 island in India. The digital database repository contains a total of 1994 herbarium specimens consisting of 277 genera belonging to 91 family from 34 order under 2 classes Liliopsida and Magnoliopsida described under phylum Tracheophyta and kingdom Plantae. These herbarium specimens are being preserved at the Research Centre facility located near Shirval, District Satara, State Maharashtra, India. Additional information about NGCPR can be accessed at www.ngcpr.org.
| Title | Digital Herbarium - NGCPR |
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| Identifier | Digital Herbarium Specimens |
| Funding | The NGCPR Digital Herbarium project was funded by the Pirojsha Godrej Foundation for a period of two years from 2020 to 2022. |
| Study Area Description | This digital database of herbarium specimens is collected from various locations across India. The geographic coverage includes 12 states (Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Tamilnadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal), one union territory (Puducherry) and one island (Andaman and Nicobar). |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Plant specimens were collected from various locations in India. During the collection, information such as plant details, location, date, collectors name and collection number were recorded in the field record books. These specimens were then identified in the laboratory at NGCPR. Following the standard herbarium preparation method, the specimens were dried and mounted on herbarium sheet. Details recorded in the field were entered in the herbarium specimen sheets. A barcode with unique ID number was provided to each herbarium specimen. For the digitization process, the barcoded herbarium specimens were scanned using a camera and high-resolution images were stored as digital herbarium.
| Study Extent | The NGCPR Digital Herbarium project aimed at developing herbarium specimens followed by digitization. Under this project plant specimens were collected from various locations in the natural habitats from the Western Ghats, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and other parts of India. A total of 1994 herbarium specimens were developed and digitized covering 12 states, one union territory and one island. |
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| Quality Control | The identification of plant specimens was conducted with the help of a literature review, flora, illustrations, photographs, comparison with properly identified herbarium specimens, and consultation with herbarium expertise. While preparing the herbarium care was taken to ensure that the sample included flowers/fruits/portion of the stem with leaves and disease free. |
Method step description:
- Plant specimens were collected from various locations in India. During the collection, information such as plant scientific name, place of collection, date, collectors name and collection number were recorded in the field record books. These specimens were then dried and mounted on herbarium sheet after which details were entered in the herbarium specimen sheets. A barcode with unique ID number was provided to each herbarium specimen. For the digitization process, the barcoded herbarium specimens were scanned using a camera and high resolution images were stored as digital herbarium.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://training-ipt-b.gbif.org/resource?r=digitalherbarium-ngcpr |
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