Ethnobotanical and Traditional Knowledge on Psammophytic Plants: Southeast Indian Coastal Area | ||||
Egyptian Journal of Botany | ||||
Article 14, Volume 63, Issue 3, September 2023, Page 877-897 PDF (3.12 MB) | ||||
Document Type: Regular issue (Original Article) | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ejbo.2023.130140.1947 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Mariadoss Alphonse 1; Santosh Adhikari1; William Raja Tharsius Raja2, 3; Nagaraj Nallakaruppan1; Chandra Veluchamy1; Manoj Sekaran1; Parthipanraja Andandaraj1; Kanagam Nachiappan1, 4; Rahda Navapara1; Richa Doshi1; Nidhi Sabade1; Anantharaman Perumal5; Kalaivani Thiagarajan 1; Rajasekaran Chandrasekaran 1 | ||||
1Department of Biotechnology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore – 632014, TamilNadu, India | ||||
2Division of Ethnopharmacology, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai – 600034, Tamil Nadu, India | ||||
3P.G..and Research Department of Biotechnology, Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirapalli – 620017, Tamilnadu, India | ||||
4Department of Biotechnology, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur – 602117, TamilNadu, India | ||||
5Centre for Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Parangipettai - 608 502, Tamil Nadu, India | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The Southeast Indian (SEI) coastal area is rich in unique wild plant life. These coastal plants have various medicinal properties that the local inhabitants traditionally use. No study has reported the documentation of medicinal plants in the entire SEI coastal region. In this study, we report the complete medicinal plants found along the SEI coastal regions and the traditional ethnobotanical knowledge (TEK) inventory of fishermen’s communities. Field study documented a total of 111 medicinal plant species, which belong to 49 families in the 46 fixed study sites along with the SEI and established herbaria. The highest species count was recorded from the Fabaceae family and the least from Amaranthaceae, Rhizophoraceae, and Apocynaceae family. Among the collected plants, 43% were herbs, followed by 33% trees, 15% shrubs, 6% climbers and 3% creepers. On surveying the fisherman community's traditional ethnobotanical knowledge (TEK), it was observed that among the total number of informants, 57 % were above the age group of 60 yrs, followed by 28% and 15% of middle and younger age groups, respectively. This study will provide basic knowledge about the medicinal plant resources of SEI and TEK of fishermen’s community to initiate the future-oriented conservation strategies | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Fishermen; Medicinal plants; Southeast Indian coast; Traditional ethnobotanical knowledge | ||||
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