An ethnobotanical documentation of medicinal plants from Bundelkhand and Vindhyachal region of Uttar Pradesh, India

This study conducted in forest fringe regions of Uttar Pradesh documents indigenous traditional knowledge used for healing practices. Extensive field surveys were carried out including 800 informants to identify the medicinally important plants. The most common type of plants were herbs (39.02%), trees (30.89%), shrubs (19.92%), and climbers (10.16%). This paper presents detailed list of 245 plant species with their specific parts used to cure 141 different types of ailments and diseases. For individual species, the ethnobotanical indices like Use Value (UV), Relative Frequency Citation (RFC), Plant Part Value (PPV), Informant Agreement Ratio (IAR), and Fidelity Level (FL) were calculated.