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The present study deals with the ethnoveterinary plants used to treat livestock diseases in Melmangalam village, Theni district and Thenparankundram of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu. About 59 medicinal plant species belonging to 34 families under 56 genera are used traditionally to treat 30 different livestock disease conditions were recorded in thi...
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... three species each in Lamiaceae, Rutaceae and Apiaceae, two species each in Phyllanthaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae, Sapindaceae, Zingiberaceae, Piperaceae, Solanaceae and the other families constituting one species each. It was found that family Leguminosae had been the major contributor of ethnoveterinary plants in the study area (Fig. 3). In an earlier study, it was reported that family Fabaceae was the major contributor of medicinal plant species ( Prabhu et al., 2014). The reason for Fabaceae being the most dominant family in the study area was because it has been known to have the largest number of species than any other family across the globe (Marles and ...
