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Today, April 8, the president of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Khushvakhtzoda Qobiljon Khushvakht, visited the herbarium resources of the Institute of Botany, Phisiology and Plant Genetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

During the visit, it was reported that the herbarium of the Institute of Botany, Physiology and Genetics of Plants of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan was established in 1941 and is the only specialized natural botanical resource in Tajikistan. The Institute's herbarium fund is considered the richest collection of plants in Central Asia.

It should be noted that more than 200,000 dried herbarium specimens of plants are preserved here, including 28,000 herbaceous plants, 15,000 flowering plants, and more than 15,000 aquatic plants growing in the Pamir-Оlоi Mountain regions (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan). Herbarium sheets have been collected by various scientists since 1876 to the present.

It was emphasized that the herbarium's collection is unique not only in terms of its richness and history of collecting plant specimens, where the first plants were collected 135 years ago by prominent Russian scientists, but also in terms of the diverse composition of endemic, rare, and exotic species included in it. Currently, the herbarium's collection contains herbarium specimens of interesting plants - remnants of the ancient flora of Central Asia, that is, remnants of the third flora of the region.