Welcome To Rapinat Herbarium

The Rapinat Herbarium (RHT is the international acronym), is a university College Herbarium organized since 1967 and named after Fr. A. Rapinat S J (1892-1959) who pioneered teaching of Plant Science in St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli and whose collections formed the nucleus of the herbarium. The Founder Director of RHT is late Fr.Dr.K.M.Matthew S J (1930-2004), Late Fr.Dr.S.John Britto, S J (1983-2019)
and Fr. L. John Peter Arulanandam SJ (2019…) is the present Director.

Vision

RHT will meet the specialized demands of bioscientists dealing with uses of plant biodiversity in imparting Taxonomic knowledge on species. It would undertake research in molecular systematics to delineate taxa of economic and RET value. The herbarium will also update the floristics of southern peninsular India and engage in Revision and Monography of select genera.