Background: Over the last decade, there has been a sudden rise in the demand for herbal as well as Information and Technology (IT) industry around the world. Identification of plant species has become useful and relevant to all the members of the society including farmers, traders, hikers, etc. Conventional authentication techniques such as morphological characterization, histological methods, and optical microscopy require multiple skills which are tedious, timeconsuming and difficult to learn for non-experts. This creates a hurdle for individuals interested in acquiring knowledge of species. Relying on rapid, economical and computerized approaches to identify and authenticate medicinal plants has become a recent development.

背景：在过去的十年中，全球对草药以及信息技术（IT）行业的需求突然增加。植物种类的识别已变得有用，并与包括农民，商人，远足者等在内的社会所有成员相关。传统的鉴定技术，例如形态表征，组织学方法和光学显微镜，要求多种技能，这些技能繁琐，耗时且难以掌握。向非专家学习。这为有兴趣获取物种知识的个人带来了障碍。依靠快速，经济和计算机化的方法来鉴定和鉴定药用植物已成为最近的发展。