World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

DOCUMENTATION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ETHNOBOTANICAL IMPORTANCE OF SOME CULTIVATED AND WILD CLIMBERS AND LIANAS IN BHORANJ TEHSIL OF HAMIRPUR DISTRICT (H.P)

*Nitesh Kumar, Monika Thakur, Surendra Kumar Godara, Rajeev Bhoria and 5Arun Kumar

ABSTRACT

Hamirpur district is the smallest district of Himachal Pradesh due to area wise and this district falls under Shivalik hills. This district is full of forests with floristic plant diversity. Due to modernization, there is advancement in technology, means and facilities which are helpful to raise the standard of life of people in this district but still the peoples have good faith in traditional knowledge regarding to ethnobotanical uses of plants especially for various purposes especially for medicinal purposes. This paper emphasize traditional knowledge about use of ethnobotanically important some cultivated and wild Climbers and Lianas as plant resources of Bhoranj region of district Hamirpur. This traditional knowledge is degraded day by day. So this is the need of hour to conserve the traditional knowledge about the medicinal aspect and other ethnobotanical purposes of plants resources of study area for the benefit of future generation through documenting that traditional knowledge. This step is also a necessary step for the conservation of those plant species among the flora of study area that are in danger of extinction.

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