Life sciences Leaflets(LSIC2011)200-207,2012 FREE DOWNLOAD ISSN2277-4297(P) 0976 – 1098(O) PUBLISHED ON 29TH FEB 2012 STUDIES ON CLIMBER RESOURCES USED BY MALDHARIS OF BHANVAD TALUKA OF JAMNAGAR DISTRICT IN SAURASHTRA REGION, GUJARAT, INDIA K.V. KANJARIYA 1, R.S. PATEL 1 AND K.C. PATEL 2 1BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, K.K.SHAH JARODWALA MANINAGAR SCIENCE COLLEGE, AHMEDABAD(GUJARAT, INDIA). 2BOTANY DEPARTMENT, SMT. S.M.PANCHAL SCIENCE COLLEGE,TALOD – 383215.
[email protected] ABSTRACT: The present paper deals with 19 climber species belonging to 15 families used by tribal inhabitants of Taluka Bhanvad (Jamnagar) are being used by aborigines and rural folks for the treatment of various health problems. The northern part of Bhanvad taluka covers by Lalpur and Khambhalia talukas and western part cover by Kalyanpur taluka. Bhanvad taluka lies between 220-00’ N latitudes and 690-49’ E longitudes. Bhanvad taluka consists of 81 villages. Total population of Bhanvad taluka is 109545 while rural population is 89827. Total area of taluka is 731.95 Sq. Km. Forest area of the taluka is 8654 hectares. Major rivers of the region is Phulku, Veradi and Vartu river. During the present ethnobotanical investigations, emphasis was made to list out the ethnobotanical useful plant species of this area. Some important ethnobotanical climber species of this area like Abrus precatorius, Asparagus racemosus, Celastrus paniculatas, Ceropegia bulbousa, Cocculus hirsutus, Rivea hypocrateriformis, Tylophora dalzellii etc. are successfully grown in these forest areas are documented here. All the plant species are described here with their botanical names, local names, name of the family and ethnobotanical uses.