6. ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDY OF SOME IMPORTANT AQUATIC AND MARSHY PLANTS OF ANAND TALUKA OF DISTRICT ANAND, GUJARAT, INDIA by 1.K. R. PATEL AND 2.N.K. PATEL
Abstract
The present paper reports an ethnobotanical research study conducted during the year 2014-2015. The present paper aim to collect, identify and record some aquatic and semi-aquatic plants used in various ways by local or tribal people in their daily work. The plants were collected from the selected sites of Anand Taluka. Total 42 number of ethnobotanical plant species belonging to 16 families were recorded, which are greatly used by the tribal as well as local people of the surrounding area in various ways in their daily uses. They used the plants in various forms such as food, as fodder, in the preparation of medicines and in domestic uses. The major life forms observed largely embrace herbs, shrubs and climbers. The Bentham and Hooker system of classification was adopted for the present study. Here some important collected plant species are described with their local name, family and brief ethnobotanical uses.
KEY WORD: Ethnobotanical plants, Taluka, Anand District, Aquatic, Marshy plant.
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