Alfa S Mohanty and Bijayini Sahoo
Government Women’s College, Keonjhar is a reputed institute located at the headquarters of Keonjhar district in Northern part of Odisha. In the present study the Government Women’s College campus, Keonjhar was taken as the sample study area for the analysis of total plants species present within the campus and their importance with respect to medicinal and economic value. As we know plants are rich source of medicinal properties like antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antimicrobial, antioxidant, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antitumor etc and economically useful for several domestic as well as commercial purposes. Wilderness spreaded over about 45 percent of this institute’s campus geographical area. In search for medicinal plants 76 genera belongs to 36 families of dicots and 12 genera belongs to 8 families of monocots were recorded from the campus. Among these plants maximum number of herb species, then tree species followed by shrub species were observed. Due to over exploitation and loss of biodiversity and cleaning purpose of campus, a number of medicinal plants were under serious threat. These plants were used for prevention of different types of disease. In this present study we found total 102 plants from which there are 88 no. of dicot plants and 14 no. of monocot plants and a detailed table was prepared in the result section. Asteraceae and Apocynaceae are found to be most dominant families among all containing 10 and 6 no of species respectively. All the plants are collected, pressed and preserved to make herbaria in the labrotory and a detailed study on the plants were carried out for their medicinal properties and data were collected from previous research papers. A collection of herbaria including all the plants studied in the present work was submitted for future reference which will be definitely helpful for the further study of plants present within the campus. With degradation of environment because of anthropogenic activities, due care needs to be taken to conserve the biodiversity especially plants having medicinal value for sustainable use.
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