Useful Plants of the Alangan Mangyan of Halcon Range, Mindoro Island, Philippines

Meadows and pastures are important resource of livestock feeds in mountain regions and all plant species on them don?t have same value as livestock feeds. From aspect of food value for livestock all species fundamentally can distribute as useful and harmful plants. In paper are represent two plant associations of Stara Planina Mountain Festucetum vallesiacae and Agrostietum vulgarae. In this associations, besides useful plants, are defined, harmful plant species, there present in associations and all of it in aim of ascertainment measures for their removal or reduction from sward. Group of harmful plants is segmented on three subcategory: bed and worthless plants, harmful and poorly poisons and very poisons plants. Association Festucetum vallesiacae count 75 plant species and of that, category bed and worthless plants belong 26 plants or 34.7 g kg-1, category harmful and poorly poisons belong 8 or 10.6 g kg-1, while category very poisons plants default. Association Agrostietum vulgare count 47 plant species and of that category bed and worthless plants belong 17 or 36.17 g kg-1, category harmful and poorly poisons just one plant or 2.13 g kg-1 and category very poisons plants default too.

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Especies útiles del género Mimosa (Fabaceae-Mimosoideae) en México

Botanical Sciences ◽

10.17129/botsci.1634 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 33 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sara Lucía Camargo-Ricalde ◽

Rosaura Greter ◽

Angélica Martínez-Bernal ◽

Verónica García-García ◽

Saraí Barrios-del-Rosal

Keyword(s):

Natural Resources ◽

Data Base ◽

Construction Material ◽

Useful Plants ◽

Number Of Species ◽

Medicinal Use ◽

Living Fences ◽

Herbarium Collections

By the number of species, Mimosa is the most important genus of Mimosoideae in Mexico; however, species of this genus have not been considered as important natural resources, due to the lack of ethnobotanic information. Based on the revision of herbarium collections (CODAGEM, ENCB, IEB, IMSSM, MEXU and UAMIZ) , of data base of useful plants in Mexico (Banco de Información Etnobotánica de Plantas Mexicanas, BADEPLAM, UNAM), specialized literature, as well as information obtained in the field, a compilation about uses of Mimosa species in Mexico has been done. A list of 32 species with local or regional uses is presented. Of these, 16 are used as fodder, 15 have medicinal use, 14 as fuel, 11 as living fences; other less frequent uses include construction material (6 species), meliferous (5), furriery (4), ornament l (3), edible (2), and agricultural tool (1).

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