Abstract
Ethnomedicines are widely used across India. Scientific
knowledge of these uses varies with some regions, such as the North
Eastern India region, being less well known. Plants being used are
increasingly threatened by a variety of pressures and are being
categories for conservation management purposes. Mizoram state in North
East India has served as the location of our studies of ethnomedicines
and their conservation status. 304 plants from 96 families were recorded
as being used by the indigenous Mizo (and other tribal communities)
over the last ten years. Analysis of distributions of species across
plant families revealed both positive and negative correlations that are
interpretted as evidence of consistent bases for selection.
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PDFDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17348/era.9.0.379-420
