Abstract
Medicinal plants are valuable source for development of cost effective drugs which play a significant role in the primary healthcare. Most of the medicinal plants are subjected to unsustainable harvesting threatening for existence. The study assessed the regeneration status and pattern of the medicinal plants by documenting medicinal plants, their distribution, habit and estimating their density, dominance, diversity, species richness, similarity index and vulnerability status. The area comprises scrub and thorny forest with deciduous vegetation which hosts rich medicinal plant diversity. The stratified sampling with 285 regeneration plots indifferent vegetation landscapes was assessed. Natural vegetation landscape had a higher diversity when compared to a plantation landscape. Sorenson index of similarity revealed the occurrence of 72 species in all the three seasons indicating the high abundance of medicinal flora. Species-individual accumulation analysis showed higher species heterogeneity indifferent vegetation landscape. Dominant medicinal plants among the regeneration patterns were Hemidesmus indicus, Heteropogon contortus, Mitracarpus verticillatus, Stachytarpheta indica, Chomelia asiatica etc. The regeneration potential provides an insight for suitability of different species in different seasons across the vegetation blocks. The results of this study will help in building a comprehensive database of medicinal plants for strategizing the in-situ and ex-situ conservation measures for sustainable utilization.
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