Abstract: Present study deals with Ethnobotanical survey of aquatic plants of Kanker city, the present work conducted to identify nature of macrophytes that found in ponds of Kanker city. Kanker a dense forest area named Dandkarayana. Kanker town is on the national highway NH-30. It lies between the two well developed cities of Raipur (capital of C.G.) and Jagdalpur (Head quarter of baster.) River Doodhnadi flow through the city. Kanker city is made up of small pocked of hills. The main ponds of Kanker city are Dandiya talab, Mahurband talab, Raja talab and sheetla talab. Ethnobotany is the study of which people of particular culture and reason make use of indigenous plants in other words ethno botany suggested the fundamental role of plants in different culture including medicinal purposes. The occurrence of various habit from of aquatic macrophytes growing in the ponds of Kanker city namely Dandiya, Raja talab were studied during survey. The study period was from july 2014- june 2015. The ponds water surface is not related to aquatic macrophyte species the margin are of pond shows large number of plants species. Total 17 macrophyte are identified according to our survey report namely Nelumbo nucifera –(Nymphaceae) Ipomoea aquatica and Marsilea quadrifolia, Trapa bispinosa, Nelumbo, Sagittaria, Typha, Azolla, Pistia, Eichhornia sps, Ceratophyllam demersum-, Commelina benghlensis , Hydrilla verticillata–.In this paper the ethnobotany of aquatic plants is presented. Here ethno-botanically interesting plants are given with their uses. Total 17 Aquatic plants have been reported in this paper.
Keywords: Ethnobotany, Kanker, Aquatic plants, Macrophyte, Dandkarayana.
Title: Ethnobotanical Survey of Aquatic Plant in Kanker City Chhattisgarh (India)
Author: R.Kuldeep, Dr. V.Acharya
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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