Herbarium
Herbarium was established in the year 2002 in the department of Botany, Government Dungar College, Bikaner by Dr. Suman Chandra Sharma. This herbarium is one of the largest herbarium in the state of Rajasthan. In this herbarium around 7500 herbarium sheets of plant specimens are present which are collected from different areas of Bikaner Division and other nearby areas. All the sheets are given the accession number by Dungar College herbarium. These herbarium sheets are approved by Botanical Survey of India (B.S.I.) and have been arranged according to Bentham and Hooker system of classification.
This herbarium has sheets of many first time reported species from Rajasthan as well as India. Nonea caspica is a new record for India collected from Hanumangarh District. In this herbarium Ph.D. scholar Ramesh Kumar Agarwal and Chandan Singh Rajpurohit found a new record of grass species from Rajasthan and they dedicated its name as variety to Dr. Suman Chandra Sharma i,e Acrachne racemosa var. Sumanensis. In total one new record is from India and eight are from Rajasthan.
Herbarium is well equipped with important taxonomic tools such as plant press, Vasculum, digging equipment etc. which are used in the field. In this herbarium floras of different regions and books of taxonomy are also present.