Western Regional Centre, Pune

The Library of the centre houses 9846 books and journals dealing with different aspect of Taxonomy and Floristics. The Library has varied collection starting from significant classical old publications such as Coloquios des Simples (Garcia de Orta 1563), Hortus Malabaricus (Hendrik van Rheede 1678–1703), Genera plantarum (Carl Linnaeus 1737), Species plantarum (Carl Linnaeus1753), Mantissa plantarum (Carl Linnaeus 1771), Flora Indica (Roxburgh 1822–1824), Prodromus Florae Peninsula Indiae Orientalis (Wight and Arnott 1834), A catalogue of the plants growing in Bombay and its vicinity (John Graham 1834), Icones Plantarum Indiae (R. Wight 1838-1853), Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum (W. Griffith 1847–1854), The Bombay Flora (Dalzell & Gibson 1861), Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (A.P. de Candolle 1823–1873), The Flora Sylvatica for Southern India (Beddome 1869–1874), and Forest Flora of Bombay Presidency and Sind (Talbot 1909–1911) to modern floristic accounts comprising of National Floras, State Floras, Regional Floras, Districts Floras, Flora of Protected Areas and Fragile Ecosystems, Monographs, Fascicles, Journals, Regional topographic maps, Dictionaries, Microfiche and Reprints. All significant publications dealing with Phanerogam and Cryptogam diversity of the area of jurisdiction are also available. Research journal section of library has 52 national and international Journals dealing with different aspects of taxonomy and floristic studies.