Ethnobotany of Ghalegay, District Swat, Pakistan

Ethnobotanical study of plants revealed that the local community of Ghalegy, District Swat, invariably uses 126species of 59 families for various purposes. Based on their traditional local uses, fifty-seven species (45.2%) were classified as medicinal, forty-seven as fire wood (37.3%), forty-five as forage (35.7%), twenty-eight as honey bee species (22.2%), twenty-seven as vegetable species (21.4%), 25 as edible fruits ( 14 wild and 11cultivated), thirteen as timberwood (10.3%), twelve as ornamental (9.5%), eleven as furniture wood, ten as shelter and thatch makers (7.9%), ten as fencing (7.9%), five as poisonous (4%), four as religious/superstitious species, three species used in making hand sticks and wooden tools (2.4%), three as utensil cleaner species (2.4%), three as evil repellent and one as fish poisoning species. The area is in plant resources and traditional knowledge but it needs ecological management for its sustainability.

作 者： Farrukh Hussain Ilyas Iqbal Mufakhirah Jan Durrani   作者單位： Farrukh Hussain,Ilyas Iqbal(Department of Botany, University of Peshawar, Pakistan)

Mufakhirah Jan Durrani(Department of Botany, SBK Wonen University, Quetta, Pakistan) 

刊 名： 云南植物研究  ISTIC PKU 英文刊名： ACTA BOTANICA YUNNANICA  年，卷(期)： 2006 28(3)  分類號： Q94  關(guān)鍵詞： Ethnobotany   Medicinal plants   Ghalegay   Pakistan