Socio-economic importance of some high value wild medicinal plants from Lebanon

The following paper considers aspects of systematic and ecological structure of the weed medicinal plants growing in the biosphere reserve Pribuzhskoye Polesye. The studied weed plants of the region are considered to be used in pharmacology and medicine. Therefore, a detailed study of environmental groups and economic importance of commensal medicinal plants can serve as a basis for new trends development in resource studies of medicinal plants. The paper identifies diagnostic signs, as well as similarities and differences of morphometric evidence. The collection of field data was carried out by reconnaissance of the terrain. The study shows that the territory of the biosphere reserve Pribuzhskoye Polesye is characterized by a rich species composition of synanthropic weed medicinal plants of 57 species growing in different habitats that can be used for the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, circulatory system and respiratory system. It is necessary to use weed plants for medicinal purposes to increase the base of receiving biologically active materials of plants.

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Antibacterial activity of selected medicinal plants and its economic importance of Khyber agency, Pakistan

Pure and Applied Biology ◽

10.19045/bspab.2018.70093 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Muhammad Arif

Keyword(s):

Antibacterial Activity ◽

Medicinal Plants ◽

Economic Importance

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An Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants of Billawar Region, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Journal of Mountain Research ◽

10.51220/jmr.v16i1.22 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Rakesh Kumar ◽

Vikas Sharma ◽

Sudesh Kumar ◽

Vikrant Jaryan

Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plants ◽

Plant Species ◽

Field Survey ◽

Local Communities ◽

Economic Importance ◽

Local People ◽

Ethnobotanical Study ◽

Efficient Utilization ◽

Jammu And Kashmir ◽

Union Territory

The present study was carried out in some interior regions of Billawar in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory to collect the information of traditionally used and ethno-botanically important medicinal plants by the local communities. Proper identification of the plant species and their importance to the local people can provide useful information and play a pivotal role in efficient utilization of natural wealth. So, it is important to scientifically identify and document this natural wealth before they are lost forever. The field survey was conducted at different sites namely, Dewal, Billawar, Bhaddu, Sukrala, Koti Marhoon and Kishanpur of Kathua district from December 2019 to June 2020. During this study, a total of 64species of medicinal plants (including trees, shrubs herbs, and grasses) belonging to 40 families and 43 genera were identified and were commonly used by the local people to cure different diseases. Each recorded plant was identified for their economic importance and medicinal values for the treatment of diseases like headache, toothache, epilepsy, gastric problem, skin disorders earache, pneumonia, jaundice, etc. Therefore, the present work was an attempt to document and compute which includes the collection and compilation of different plant species of the region.

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Eriobotrya averyanovii, a new name for E. integrifolia Averyanov (Rosaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.512.2.7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 512 (2) ◽

Author(s):

MUHAMMAD IDREES ◽

JULIAN M.H. SHAW

Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plants ◽

East Asia ◽

Economic Importance ◽

New Name ◽

Edible Fruit ◽

Flora Of China

The genus Eriobotrya Lindley (1821: 96) (Rosaceae, Jussieu 1789), comprises of ca. 36 taxa in East Asia, Indochina, the Himalayas, Western Malaysia (Vidal 1965, Pham 2000, Kalkman 2004, Yang et al. 2005, Idrees et al. 2018). In the flora of China, 20 species were reported (Gu & Spongberg 2003, Yang & Lin 2007, Li et al. 2012, Ding et al. 2015), with a further three species (endemic) recently described from Yunnan, and Myanmar (Chen et al. 2020, Idrees et al. 2020, Kang et al. 2021). All species are trees or shrubs, and of economic importance for use as ornamentals, edible fruit or timber, as well as medicinal plants (Seth 2003).

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