The article, in accordance with the purpose of the research work, describes the volume and current
state of herbarium collections on the territory of Kazakhstan and compares them with other countries.
The National Herbarium of Kazakhstan is kept in the Institute of Botany and Phytointroduction. Kazakhstan has four herbarium funds. The World Herbarium Fund is stored in the database "Index Herbariorum". The Foundation has 3,426 herbarium collections located in 182 countries. The total number of herbarium specimens in it is 396204891 specimens. Since 2016, the report of the herbarium fund of the country and the world has been published annually. While the world herbarium sample is 396204891 specimens, the Kazakhstan herbarium sample is 0.18% of the world share. For Kazakhstan, which ranks 9th in the world, this share shows a very low level. This is due to the fact that for our country, which has a different terrain (plain-steppe, mountain), it is important to show a high indicator of phyto-diversity. Therefore, it would be much more optimal to keep track of herbarium samples if in our country universities and botanical gardens conducted an audit of herbarium samples and kept records for obtaining an acronym. Thanks to the formation of the herbarium, we could take a step forward to move into a new digital era, observing the morphology of plants, their geography and ecology, as well as individual changes and documentation of regional flora. 

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