Ethnomedicinal survey for important plants of gudem Kotha Veedi Mandalam, Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh, India

An ethnomedicinal survey was carried out in Gudem Kotha Veedi Mandalam, Visakhapatnam District, and Andhra Pradesh, India. For documentation of important flora and information from local community about their medicinal uses. The indigenous knowledge of local traditional uses was collected through questionnaire and personal interviews during field trips. The identification and nomenclature of the listed plants were based on The Flora of Andhra Pradesh. A total of 81 plants species were identified by taxonomic description and locally by ethnomedicinal knowledge of people existing in the region. Plant specimens collected, identified, preserved and mounted were deposited in the department of botany, andhra University, Visakhapatnam for future references.