DIVERSITY AND ETHNO-BOTANICAL POTENTIAL OF TREE PLANTS OF KATARNIAGHAT WILDLIFE SANCTURY, BAHRAICH (UP) INDIA: AN OVERVIEW-II.

Abstract

The plants are multipurpose, ethnobotanical, nutrimental, ethnomedicinal, ethnoveterinary and of environmental use in agro-forestry which provide shade, habitat for organisms, soil improvement, etc, many useful products are also obtained such as fruits, timber, fire wood and variety of metabolic chemicals which may be used in the form of home remedies and for traditional medicine. In Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctury there are fifty five tree plant species representing forty five genera belonging to thirty one families. Moraceae was found to be the largest family with seven plant species whereas Euphorbiaceae and Mimosaceae with five; Anacardiaceae, Myrtacea and Rubiaceae with three; Caesalpiniaceae, Ehretiaceae, Papilionaceae and Louraceae with two and rest twenty one families viz. Meliaceae and Rhamnaceae with single plant species only. Considering the multipurpose importance of these trees of KWS, the present overview is an attempt to summarise the information's available on these plant which all are yet not popular due to one reason or the other despite providing an array of benefits.