IRAN 4
INSTITUTION NAME AND MAIN ADDRESS
COUNTRY Iran
INSTITUTION NAME “Hamadan Medicinal Plant Collection”
MAIN ADDRESS Botanical Garden of Iran, P. O. Box 13116, Tehran (Iran); Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands; P.O.Box 13185-116; Tehran (Iran)

Email: info@rifr-ac.ir

Tel: +98 21 44580222

Fax: +98 21 44196575
DESCRIPTION
AREA 3,7 ha
LATITUDE 34, 83 º N
LONGITUDE 48, 58 º E
ALTITUDE 1757 m
INFORMATION ABOUT THE INSTITUTION
STATUS State
INSTITUTION TYPE Botanic Garden depending on RIFR
DATE FOUNDED 1997
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Native and exotic medicinal plants. It contains 173 species of plants belonging to 64 families including herbaceous plants (25%), shrubs (41%), trees (27%) and bulb plants (7%). Lamiaceae (39%) and Asteraceae (23%) contain the largest number of genera and species
TAXA No information available
PROGRAMMES • Conservation Programs: propagation and breeding of medicinal plants
• Research Programs (medicinal plants)
• Rural Development Programs
• Educational and awareness Programs
FEATURES AND FACILITIES • Research facilities: laboratories, library, offices
• Nursery
• Seed bank
MAIN DEFICIENCIES No information available
OTHER INFORMATION This is the Botanic Garden of the Iran Desert Research Center. This Research Center was established in 1975 and attached administratively to the National Botanic Garden of Tehran, Research Institute of Forest and Rangeland (RIFR). Consult appendix
SOURCES CONSULTED Web:www.icarda.org

www.bgci.org

www.rifr-ac.ir

Documents:

“Organization and administration of agricultural research in the Near East countries”. FAO (Hussein I. et al.) Iran, Cairo, 1971, 89 p.

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