Affiliation:
1. Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University
Abstract
The extensive use of Elaeocarpus species in Ayurveda or as ethnomedicinal plants and their economic use as timber plants, have resulted in most of them getting threatened and enlisted in the Red Data Book or the IUCN Red List of threatened plants. The present review focuses on the conservation status of important Elaeocarpus species of India in view of their medicinal importance and the efforts required, thereof, in future.
Publisher
Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh
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