Research Article
Taxonomy and Occurrence of Some Medicinal Plants Used in Traditional Medicines
Post Graduate Department of Botany, India
Received Date:October 27, 2018; Published Date: November 15, 2018
Abstract
Present paper communicates potentially important medicinal plants with reference to their taxonomy, threats if any, precise locations, flowering and fruiting period, present status in the field, traditional uses, doses if any and ecology if any. Different parts of plant species are used as traditional medicines in the form of crude drugs by variety of doses to cure different ailments and diseases. These species are collected and studied from Khandesh region of the state of Maharashtra and Sahyadri ranges of Western Ghats in India and of them, some species are conserved in our botanical garden for research, multiplication and transfer to other botanical gardens.
Keywords:Taxonomy; Medicinal plants; Uses; Traditional medicines
