BIODIVERSITY STATUS, DISTRIBUTION AND USE PATTERN OF SOME
ETHNO-MEDICINAL PLANTS
The erosion of plant biodiversity is a matter of global
concern. Due to unawareness the
building blocks of entire ecosystems are disappearing.
Some medicinal plants like Taxus
baccata Linn., Thymus serpyllum Linn., Coleus forskohli
Will., Oroxylum indicum Linn.,
Valeriana hardwickii Wall., Malaxis acuminata D.Don,
Habenaria edgeworthii Hook.
f.ex.Collett., Costus speciosus (Koen.) Sm., Dioscorea
deltodea Wall., Gloriosa superba
Linn., Polygonatum cirrhifolium Wall. and Polygonatum
verticillatum Linn., Thalictrum
foliolosum DC., Berberis aristata DC., Baliospermum
montanum Will., Bergenia ciliata
(Haworth) Sternb., Clerodendrum serratum Linn., Valeriana
jatamansii Jones, Celastrus
paniculatus Will., Habenaria intermedeia D. Don, and
Curculigo orchioides Gaerth are
reached on the border of extinction. The 2008 IUCN Red
List shows that the number of
threatened plant species is increasing gradually (IUCN
2008). Therefore, there is an
immediate need for conservation steps to be taken up
along with promotion of conservation of
medicinal plants.
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