• Dr. Neeraja Pasupuleti
• Dr. Muralidhar Reddy Busireddy

Abstract : The present study is the result of ethno botanical studies carried out during 2008 to 2022, to understand the abstract relationship of angiospermic weeds of chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh with Telugu language as a tool to study and understand indigenous knowledge of the folklore of the study area. The Folklore study or Abstract relationship in any region is important in grasping the cultural and social association of plants, in the form of native songs, local proverbs, stories, tales, poetry, and riddles etc. There are frequent direct or indirect references to plants particularly to the flowers and fruits in folk songs folk tales, and folk proverbs. They refer to important characteristics or qualities of the plants, their uses and sometimes to express other association and beliefs. Hence plant authentication is very crucial to decipher the clues hidden in abstract form of the folk lore studies of the region. Standard methods of protocol was followed in plant identification authentication and ethnobotanical data documentation. Thus, folklore comprehends all knowledge that is transmitted orally from generations to generations and is preserved consciously or unconsciously in beliefs, and in myths, legends, and tales of common acceptance, which express the temper and genius of group rather than of an individual. Because it is the repository of popular traditions folklore serves as constant source and frame of reference, but it is essentially of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Abstract relationship, cultural and social association of weeds, ethnography, folklore study, Folk proverbs, Folk riddles, folk tales.

"CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ASSOCIATION IN ABSTRACT FORM ABOUT THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF SELECTED ANGIOSPERMIC WEEDS IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRAPRADESH.INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no.a129-a139, September-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309019.pdf

"CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ASSOCIATION IN ABSTRACT FORM ABOUT THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF SELECTED ANGIOSPERMIC WEEDS IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRAPRADESH.INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no. ppa129-a139, September-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309019.pdf