Open AccessStudies on Ethnobotanical Plants used by Banjara Tribal Community of Hingoli district in Maharashtra, India
Author(s) -
R T Chavan,
A A Waghmare,
S S Choudhari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plantae scientia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-589X
DOI - 10.32439/ps.v4i4-5.250-256
Subject(s) - ethnobotany , geography , traditional medicine , medicinal plants , habitat , ethnomedicine , socioeconomics , biology , agroforestry , ecology , medicine , sociology
The Ethnomedicinal survey on medicinal plants and their traditional uses was carried out in Sengaon Dist. Hingoli in Maharashtra. These areas are floristically rich area; in this area different species are growing in their natural habitat. The Banjara community of these regions uses some of the plants as medicine for the treatment of human ailments. In this area 100 ethnomedicinal plants species belonging to 50 families were recorded from Sengaon Dist. Hingoli. Some of them, about 45 important plants are mentioned in this paper. These plants are arranged accordingly alphabetically, local names and family and parts used as medicine.