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Largest herbarium in India is at

A

Central National Herbarium, Kolkata

B

Southern Circle Herbarium, Coimbatore

C

Central Circle Herbarium, Allahabad

D

Blatter Herbarium, Mumbai

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Central National Herbarium is the largest herbarium in South -East Asia. It is situated within the Botanical Garden at Sibpur in Kolkata, West Bengal.
Presently, the Central National Herbarium possesses about 2.5 million of herbarium sheets belonging to nearly 350 families of plants, which are arranged according to Bentham anf Hooker's system of classification.
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