Neeraj Kumar Shrimali* and Shafkat Rana**

Department of Botany, S. G. G. Govt. College Banswara-327001 (India) *,**Authors for correspondence : nirajkani81@gmail.com, s.rana@rediffmail.com

ABSTRACT

Rajasthan is the largest state of India on the basis of area. According to census of India 2011, total tribal population of the state Rajasthan is 9238534 (13.5% of the total population). Geographically they are located mainly in the southern and eastern part of the state. Mina and Bheel are two major tribes of the state while Garasiya, Sahriya, Damor, Sansi and Kathodi are some less populated tribes of Rajasthan. Deep respect and close proximity with nature of these indigenous people have preserved their ancient traditiontill now. Traditional system of medicines is such an example which still being practiced for various ailments. The aim of the current study is to review the literature about ethno-medicinal plants from the family fabaceae being used by tribes of different regions of Rajasthan. Fabaceaeis the third largest family of India represented by 173 genera and 1192 species with numerous medicinal plants. Present review documented a total of 67 fabaceous ethno medicinal plants from 30 research paper reported from different regions of Rajasthan.

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