Nelumbo - The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India

Preeti D. Mahekar ¹, S. R. Yadav ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, IN

Abstract

Sixty nine samples folk medicines produced from local market have been characterized botanically and pharmacognostically. Botanical characterization has been done by actual comparison of authentic samples with that of market samples. The present paper deals with enumeration of these species used in folk medicine and gives correct botanical identity of plant materials, their common names, local names, parts used and botanical diagnostic characters.

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