aDepartment of Botany, Govt. Girls College, Morena, M.P., India, E-mail: dpatnk.pathak263@gmail.com
bDepartment of Botany, Govt. P.G. College, Morena, M.P., India, E-mail: j_mishra70@yahoo.com
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Online published on 24 April, 2012.
A large number of medicinal plants are found in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh. The plant diversity of this district is quite rich and the people especially the tribals depend on plants for procuring house hold remedies. In this work, ethnomedicinal information on 17 plant species belonging to 13 families was documented by interrogating the local traditional practitioners. Concerned scientific names along with their family, vernacular names, parts used, disease cured by these plants have been discussed in this paper.
Sheopur, ethnomedicine, traditional practitioners, documentation
