Abstract

DIVERSITY OF NUTRIMENTAL AND ETHNOVETERINARY THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL PLANTS OF BAHRAICH (UP) INDIA

*T.P. Mall and S.C. Tripathi

Abstract

Bahraich district of Eastern Uttar Pradesh is situated in Upper Gangetic Plane. It lies between 27°43ʹ and 28°51ʹ North Latitude and 81°8ʹ and 82°10ʹ, East longitude with a total area of about 6944 sq km. Due to vast area of natural forests Bahraich is also known as City of Forests. The present ethno medicinal investigation was under taken for the documentation of information regarding the uses and conservation of ethno medicinal plants being used in various veterinary ailments. Out of one hundred thirty four families with six hundred genera and one thousand twenty seven plant species found in Bahraich the plants of fifty seven families represented by one hundred and six genera of one hundred eighty one plant species are found to be being used in various veterinary ailments. Papilionaceae is represented by nine genera and ten species; Asteraceae is being represented by seven genera and nine species whereas Cucurbitaceae by six genera and seven species; Poaceae by four genera and seven species; Caesalpinaceae by four genera and six species; Apiaceae by four genera and species each; Solanaceae by three genera and six species; Acanthaceae and Lamiaceae by three genera and species each; Moraceae by two genera and five species; Brassicaceae and Amaranthaceae by two genera and four species each; Menispermaceae and Liliaceae by two genera and three species each; Meliaceae, Sapindaceae, Anacardiaceae, Rosaceae, Lytharaceae, Apocyanaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Piperaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Zingiberaceae by two genera and two species each; Mimosaceae, Combritaceae Rubiaceae, Dioscoreaceae and Cyperaceae by one genera and two species each; where as rest twenty eight families viz., Annonaceae, Fumariaceae, Cappariadeace, Carryophyllaceae, Malvaceae, Linaceae, Oxalidaceae, Rutaceae, Mitaceae, Leaceae, Myrtaceae, Punicaceae, Cactaceae, Plumbagenaceae, Oleaceae, Buddlejaceae, Cuscucataceae, Bignoniaceae, Verbenaceae, Plantagenaceae, Nyctagenaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Polygonaceae, Louraceae, Loranthaceae, Cannaceae, Agavaceae and Araceae are found to be represented with single genera and species each.

Keywords: Bahraich, Ethno veterinary plants.