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- Title
Ethnobotanical and Traditional Knowledge on Psammophytic Plants: Southeast Indian Coastal Area.
- Authors
Alphonse, Mariadoss; Adhikari, Santosh; Tharsius Raja, William Raja; Nallakaruppan, Nagaraj; Veluchamy, Chandra; Sekaran, Manoj; Andandaraj, Parthipanraja; Nachiappan, Kanagam; Navapara, Radha; Doshi, Richa; Sabade, Nidhi; Perumal, Anantharaman; Thiagarajan, Kalaivani; Chandrasekaran, Rajasekaran
- Abstract
THE SOUTHEAST Indian (SEI) coastal area is rich in unique wild plant life. These coastal plants have various medicinal properties that the local inhabitants traditionally use. No study has reported the documentation of medicinal plants in the entire SEI coastal region. In this study, we report the complete medicinal plants found along the SEI coastal regions and the traditional ethnobotanical knowledge (TEK) inventory of fishermen's communities. Field study documented a total of 111 medicinal plant species, which belong to 49 families in the 46 fixed study sites along with the SEI and established herbaria. The highest species count was recorded from the Fabaceae family and the least from Amaranthaceae, Rhizophoraceae, and Apocynaceae family. Among the collected plants, 43% were herbs, followed by 33% trees, 15% shrubs, 6% climbers and 3% creepers. On surveying the fisherman community's traditional ethnobotanical knowledge (TEK), it was observed that among the total number of informants, 57% were above the age group of 60 yrs, followed by 28% and 15% of middle and younger age groups, respectively. This study will provide basic knowledge about the medicinal plant resources of SEI and TEK of fishermen's community to initiate the future-oriented conservation strategies
- Subjects
TRADITIONAL knowledge; COASTAL plants; WILD plants; AGE groups; MEDICINAL plants; PLANT species
- Publication
Egyptian Journal of Botany, 2023, Vol 63, Issue 3, p877
- ISSN
0375-9237
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21608/ejbo.2023.130140.1947