Ethnobotanical information on some aquatic plants of South 24 Parganas, West Bengal
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https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2016.3.2.224Keywords:
Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicine, Aquatic Plants, 24 Parganas(S), W.B.Abstract
District South 24-Parganas is surrounded by river Hoogly (Ganga) in the West, North 24 Parganas and Bangladesh in the East, the North 24- Parganas and Kolkata in the North and extended up to the fringes of Sundarbans approaching the Mangrove reserves towards Bay of Bengal. Quite naturally the district has an interesting combination of its people and at the same time its floristic composition. In course of the survey of Aquatic Flora of South 24- Parganas, West Bengal, the first authors had collected the data regarding the information on the traditional use of some local plants specially ethnomedicne; interacting with the local people particularly the ethnic people like Santals and some displaced families from Bangladesh and others. In the present paper, some commonly useable aquatic plants from different families have been enlisted with botanical name, traditional uses including ethno - veterinary application etc.
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