A study of important medicinal plants of savantwadi region, western ghats, (Ms), India

The Medicinal plants provide the raw materials for use in all the indigenous systems of medicine. The demand for medicinal plants is increasing day by day and on the other hand changing global environment is worstly affecting this plant wealth. This reflects the need to study and preserve diversity of medicinal plants. The coverage area of the Western Ghats in relation to geographical area and biodiversity variation is one of the larger and ecologically sensitive areas in the world. All over the world, there are 32 ecologically sensitive areas (hot spots) of which two are in India including Western Ghats. The study area harbours the radius of 30 kms from Savantwadi. In the present investigation, we documented the important families, number of the genera and species and the medicinal uses of medicinally important plants which are being used by the people.