Floristic composition and utilization of ethnomedicinal plant species in home gardens of the Eastern Himalaya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home gardens are popular micro land-use system and are socioeconomically linked with people for their livelihood. In the foothill region of Eastern Himalaya, very less documentations are available on species richness of the home gardens, particularly on the ethnomedicinal plants. We assumed that the home garden owners of the study site are domesticating ethnomedicinal plants which are not easily accessible to them in the wild due to distant forest. This study was planned to explore and document the diversity and population status of ethnomedicinal plants in the home gardens along with its ethnomedicinal use.

Methods

The present study was conducted in the home gardens of Cooch Behar district of West Bengal from May 2017 to May 2018. A multidisciplinary approach lik

SUBMITTER: Pala NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6380006 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature