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While carrying out identification of Barleria L
. (family Acanthaceae) collected from various places of Nepal and preserved in National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories, Department of Plant Resources, Godawari, Lalitpur, Nepal (KATH), we came across some specimens belonging to one interesting species. During the identification, this species did not match with any species of Barleria already reported from Nepal (Hara and Shakya, 1982; Press et al., 2000; Bista et al., 2001). It has been identified as Barleria prionites L. which is new addition to the flora of Nepal. This species was collected from Nepalganj, Banke district, West Nepal at 181m
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This study was conducted in the sacred grove of Lumbini to elucidate its potential role in biodiversity conservation in Nepal
. Lumbini Development Trust enumerated tree species of the grove. We have assessed taxonomic validity by identifying the species. A total of 65 tree species, 39 are indigenous to Nepal, were found in the grove. Most of the species were tropical/subtropical elements that are found to be distributed in Nepal from 100 to 2400m asl. Among total indigenous trees, 64 % trees have their distribution in the whole Nepal, whereas 19 %, 14 % and 3 % are limited to central, eastern, and both central and western part of Nepal respectively. The indigenous species found in the grove accounts for 11 % of total tree diversity of Nepal. Of these tree species, five are of threatened, vulnerable and endangered categories. The forest formation of the grove conforms to Dalbergia sisoo-Acacia catechu type’s forest of Nepal. However, majority of the trees in the grove were produced by plantation so it has contributed to ex-situ conservation of trees, and hence this reflects the importance of sacred grove
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Some of the oldest known medicinal systems of the world such as Ayurveda of the Indus civilisation, Arabian medicine of Mesopotamia, Chinese and Tibetan medicine of the Yellow River civilisation of China and Kempo of the Japanese are all based mostly on plants
. Interestingly, Allopathy-today’s most familiar medical system which is primarily based on synthetic chemicals for medication, has these days, shown greater interest in using chemicals derived from plants. This explains how important is, and will remain the medicinal use of plants for the mankind
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