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Studies of biodiversity and Ethanobotanical Values of Medicinal Herbs atDhamtari Forest Range Chhattisgarh

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Prakash Chand Pandey1 , Bhagyashree Deshpande2 and *Ashish Saraf 3

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Tribal belt of Dhamtari Chhattisgarh is dominant with medicinal plants by large numbers of tribal, rural and urban people. Several tribal communities like Kamar, Gond and Baigas inhibit in the area Ethno botanical surveys had been carried out in forest patches of Sitanadi Wild life sanctuary, Dhamtari district Chhattisgarh from 2019-2020. The paper reports were documented of Ethanobotanical uses of 64 herb species out of which 15 valuable species are described here in which different parts of plants are used for different purposes for traditional medicine by people. Family wise distribution of medicinal plants shows Fabaceae is most dominant among the families. The drugs were found to be extracted from whole plant, root, rhizome, leaves, flower and seed of the plant. The aim of the present survey is to highlight that local people knowledge, role in resource management and focus on the diversity of ethnobotanical plants for future use and provide the framework to aware the people how to use plants to solve different type of problem. Keywords- Ethanobotany, medicinal plants, traditional, drugs, Dhamtari district

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