Ethnobotanical study of useful climbers/twiners of district Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Ajaib, M. . Dept. of Botany; Zaheer-ud-Din, K. . Dept. of Botany; Siddiqui, M.F. . Dept. of Botany

Ethnobotanical study of useful climbers/twiners of district Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir

2012

Ajaib, M. (Government Coll. Univ., Lahore (Pakistan). Dept. of Botany) | Zaheer-ud-Din, K. (Government Coll. Univ., Lahore (Pakistan). Dept. of Botany) | Siddiqui, M.F. (Federal Urdu Univ. Arts, Science and Technology, Karachi (Pakistan). Dept. of Botany)

Ethnobotanically important plants are used for various resolves in daily life including medicines, food, fodder, vegetables, etc. Medicinal plants are necessary for treatment of various diseases and production of various medicines. For this purpose climbers/twiners are extensively used as medicine. The local people of District, Kotli use 36 climbers/twiners of the vascular plants for medicine, vegetable and fodder. As traditional culture is disappearing the knowledge about the plant wealth is going to be lost. The information on climber species is obtained while studying the flora of District Kotli, Azad Kahmir. For each plant its family, botanical name, vernacular name, flowering period is given. A total of 36 climber/twiner species belonging to 18 families were recorded for the medicinal, vegetable and fodder. Among all the families family Cucurbitaceae were found to be most abundant having 7 species followed by Convolvulaceae and Papilionaceae with 4 species each.

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