The present study was designed to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of the both aqueous and methanol extracts of nine traditional used folk medicinal plants, namely Aerva javanica, Coccinia indica, Pterocarpus santalinus, Mangifera indica, Hemidesmus indicus, Eupatorium ayapana, Heliotropium...

Periploca graeca L. (asclepiadaceae) is a climber plant native from Eastern Europe that lives in alluvial floodplains. It has been commercialized as an ornamental plant. Some years ago different populations of this plant were localized in the alluvial forests of the Segre river (Catalonia, NE...

The diaspore shapes (31 seeds and 39 fruits) of 70 species found in the sandy land on Horqin, Inner Mongolia, China, were measured. Spherical diaspores showed smaller variances and elongated or flatter diaspores showed larger ones. There were significant differences in the diaspore shapes with the...

Twenty extracts, 10 EtOH and 10 CH₂Cl₂, from different parts of 9 African medicinal plants used in Congolese traditional medicine for the treatment of malaria, were submitted to a pharmacological test in order to evaluate their effect on Plasmodium falciparum growth in vitro. Of these plant...

The present study on Monitoring and Evaluation of Ecological and Socio-economic Variables is a continuation of the earlier one on Biodiversity in Tropical Moist Forests: A Study of Sustainable Use of Non-wood Forest Products in the Western Ghats, Kerala. This was carried out in Wayanad and Nilambur ...

Results from the in vitro antiamoebic activity (against Entamoeba histolytica) of some Congolese plant extracts used as antidiarrhoeals in traditional medicine indicated that of 45 plant extracts tested, 35 (77.78%) exhibited an antiamoebic activity and 10 (22.22%) were inactive. The highest...

The ethnobotanical uses of some plants by the Jaunsari tribes of Chakrata Tehsil in the Dehra Dun district of India are presented. The Jaunsari tribe of Jaunsar-Bawar is a primitive group of people who have their own culture, custom and traditions. Tribals use a number of wild plants such as ...

The genus Aleuroclava is represented in India by 22 species. Fourteen new species are described, including A. bilineata sp. nov. and A. nagercoilensis sp. nov. from Cissus sp., A. kanyakumariensis sp. nov. from Hemidesmus sp., A. louiseae sp. nov. from Ficus racemosa and A. vitexae sp. nov. from ...

The rich diversity of wild plants is the source of food, fibre, fuel, medicines, contraceptives, oils, gums, resins etc. used by the tribal peoples to meet their day to day needs and for health care. The preparation of ethnomedicinal recipes, dosage, mode of administration and plant uses are...

The uses of 75 medicinal plants of the traditional Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia are tabulated. The plants were screened for alkaloids, particularly pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Thirty-three showed a positive test for alkaloids, but only one of these, Crotalaria juncea, was positive for pyrrolizidine...