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This paper deals with the plants used by aboriginal tribes of Ratan Mahal and surrounding hills. Some of the important food and medicinal plants restricted to these tribes or this region are discussed. Many uses of plants reported here have not been recorded earlier.
“What does interest us academically and practically is how to salvage some of the medicobotanical lore before it shall have been forever entombed with the culture that gave it birth. ...” (6).
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Bedi, S.J. Ethnobotany of the Ratan Mahal Hills, Gujarat, India. Econ Bot 32, 278–284 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02864701
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