• M. SAMINATHAN
• A. MURUGANANDAM

Pachamalai hills are diverse for different medicinal plant species Pachamalai hills are around the protected area of Eastern Gates of India with 527.6 Sq. Km located in Tamil Nadu region. Hills are named for the Pachamalai people who live in the region plants of this region have inordinate medicinal importance and native communities have been utilizing local information about medicinal purposes over generations. Information about medically important plants is available sporadically with local people. A total of 150 plant species (trees, herbs, shrubs) of 58 families were evidence to be used for medicinal purposes by the local inhabitants more than 175 local tribal people, senior citizens traditional practitioners and farmer were interviewed for this purpose. Hopefully this kind of information will also generate wide interest in protecting and preserving diversity of plant species medicinal importance. Due to the death of old people and change of trends the valuable traditional medicinal knowledge in depleting from minds. This study could be helpful in conservation prospective of medicinally importance plant species of Pachamalai and traditional knowledge about their uses. Therefore it is necessary to document the plants to effectively conserve them

Pachamalai Flora, Medicinal plant, Traditional plant, Ethno medicinal plant.

"An ethonobotanical survey of traditional knowledge uses of medicinal plants from Pachamalai hills, Trichirappalli District, Tamil Nadu, India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.210-221, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904A33.pdf

"An ethonobotanical survey of traditional knowledge uses of medicinal plants from Pachamalai hills, Trichirappalli District, Tamil Nadu, India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp210-221, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904A33.pdf