Wild Edible Plants as a Nutrition- Medicine Continnum- An Ethnobotanical Survey of Gawali Tribe in Nanded District (Maharashtra) India

S.K. Umate; V.R. Marathe

doi:10.36808/if/2024/v150i5/170137

Wild Edible Plants as a Nutrition- Medicine Continnum- An Ethnobotanical Survey of Gawali Tribe in Nanded District (Maharashtra) India

Authors

S.K. Umate Department of Botany, Rajiv Gandhi Mahavidyalaya, Mudkhed, District-Nanded (Maharashtra)
V.R. Marathe Department of Botany, Rajiv Gandhi Mahavidyalaya, Mudkhed, District-Nanded (Maharashtra)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2024/v150i5/170137

Keywords:

Conservation, Diversity, Gawali community, Traditional medicines, Wild edible plants

Abstract

It is essential to document the knowledge of traditional food and medicines from rural and tribal people before it vanishes completely. The present study focused on the documentation of plant species used by Gawali community for food source. The indigenous knowledge from local people of Gawali tribe of Nanded district of Maharashtra was collected through questionnaires, personal interviews and field survey conducted during 2014-17. About 51 wild edible plant species of medicinal importance belonging to 31 families were recorded. People use these plants for edible purpose and for healing health related problems. These species show high diversity of medicinal applications. To create awareness on sustainable use of wild edible plants, their conservation and special attention is the need of time.

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