**Code**: [ASSAM](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124094) **Organization**: Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Regional Centre **Location**: Shillong, Meghalaya, India **Total number of specimens**: 260000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1956 **Geographic coverage**: Eastern Himalayas, including the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, and Tripura; Bangaldesh; Bhutan; Nepal. **Important collectors**: N. L. Bor, F. E. L. Fischer, J. D. Hooker, P. C. Kanjilal, U. N. Kanjilal, G. Mann, L. M. Perry, F. K. Ward **Notes**: Updated Aug 2015 (email correction, geographical emphasis correction). The herbarium developed around the nucleus of 45,000 specimens collected by Fischer, Perry, Kingdon Ward, Bor and Kanjilal etc. At present it has c. 2,60,000 herbarium specimens of vascular plants including 508 type specimens of angiosperms, pteridophytes, Bryophytes and Lichens representing the flora of the North Eastern India. Besides this, it contains c. 11,000 specimens of cryptogams collected from different states of the North East India. Some of the collections are more than a century old. Ministry of Environment and Forests. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2018-01-12 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.