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'''Botanical Survey of India''' ('''BSI''') located in [[Kolkata, West Bengal]], India. It was founded on 13 February 1890, is [[Government of India]] [[Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change]]'s organization for [[Statistical survey|survey]], research and conservation of [[Trees of India|plant wealth of India]], [[Flora of India|flora]] and [[Endangered mammals of India|endangered species]] of India, including by collecting and maintaining [[germplasm]] and [[gene bank]] of [[List of endangered plants|endangered]], [[Biological patent|patent]] and [[List of vulnerable plants|vulnerable]] plant species.<br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:George_King.jpg|thumb|right|Sir [[George King (botanist)|George King]] founder ex-officio Director of Botanical Survey of India]]<br />
BSI was formally instituted by [[East India Company]] (EIC) on 13 February 1890<ref name=bsi2>[http://envfor.nic.in/bsi/ Botanical Survey of India (BSI) "History", Botanical Survey of India.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224224230/http://envfor.nic.in/bsi/ |date=24 February 2007 }}</ref> under the direction of Sir [[George King (botanist)|George King]] who became first ex-officio director, earlier he had been superintendent of [[Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta]] since 1871. The Calcutta Garden became the headquarters of the Survey and was given regional responsibility for Bengal, Assam, North East, Burma, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.<ref name=bsi3>[http://bsi.gov.in BSI]</ref><br />
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Prior to 1890, EIC had already established [[botanical gardens]] at [[Sibpur]], [[pune]], [[Saharanpur]] and [[Madras]] as centres for improving botanical knowledge and experimentation under the local Governments, for example Saharanpoor [[botanical garden]], dating earlier than 1750, was acquired by EIC in 1817 for growing medicinal plants.<ref name=bsi1>[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/online-ex/art-themes//india/more/lily_more_info.htm The Saharánpur Botanic Garden", Natural History Museum, London]</ref> Most of the EIC botanical gardens' work was for the cultivation of plants for exploiting resources of India for commerce and trade.<ref name=bsi3/><br />
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==Academic and research program==<br />
Botanical Survey of India also offers Fellowship for doing research in Plant Taxonomy and also offers post doctorate fellowships to those who are trained in Taxonomy and want to continue their research related to the mandate of BSI.<ref name=bsi3/><br />
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==Publications==<br />
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Apart from the Publishing Flora of India series books, states floras, flora of Protected regions and Red Data Book of Indian Plants, BSI have also known for its various annual publications some of them are:<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325644547_Plant_Discoveries_2017</ref><br />
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Plant Discoveries: Plant Discoveries is an annual bilingual publication of Botanical Survey of India, having most authentic information on India's plant wealth. As per recent release of Plant Discoveries 2019 by Botanical Survey of India, there is total of 18800 species of angiosperms, 82 species of gymnosperms, 1307 species of pteridophytes, 15447 species of fungi, 7434 species of algae, 2786 species of bryophytes, 2981 species of lichens and 1239 species of microbes in India, which is approximately 8 percent of total recorded plant species in world. Since its reorganization, in 1954, BSI officials described 01 new families, 42 new genus and 1719 new species and infra-specific taxon. During 2019, total 253 plants has been discovered by scientist of BSI and other institutes.<ref>http://www.nelumbo-bsi.org/index.php/nlmbo/pages/view/aj</ref> Nelumbo is a biannual journal published by the Botanical Survey of India. The journal is peer-reviewed and authentic journal of plant taxonomy and plant sciences. As per recent NAAS rating 2019 the journal rated 4.17.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330107446_List_of_new_journals_with_NAAS_Scores_2019_-National_Academy_of_Agricultural_Sciences-_ICAR-_New_Delhi</ref><ref>http://bsi.gov.in/Publication/239_1_PublicationLists.aspx</ref><br />
[[File:The_Great_Banyan_Tree.jpg|thumb | right | The Great Banyan Tree of [[Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Garden]] at [[Kolkata]], a Botanical Survey of India garden.]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Botanical Gardens in India]] <br />
* [[List of botanical gardens]] worldwide<br />
* [[National Botanical Research Institute]]<br />
* [[Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Official website|https://bsi.gov.in/}}<br />
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