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Ethnobotanical investigation of wild edible plants consumed by the Bodo tribal community of BTAD region of Assam, India
Jenima Basumatary
Ethnobotanical investigation of wild edible plants consumed by the Bodo tribal community of BTAD region of Assam, India - pp788-795
Present study documents the wild edible plant used by the Bodo community of BTAD, Assam. Study was carried out in 10 villages of each BTAD district from 2022 to 2024. Total of 160 informants were interviewed which used 154 ethnobotanical species belonging to 130 genera and 66 plant families. 120 species out of 154 plant species reported were dicots, 31 species were monocots, while 3 species have been reported as pteridophytes. Hypericum japonicum (Hypericaceae) was reported with highest Use Value Index (UV: 0.045), followed by Oldenlandia corymbosa with (UV: 0.0375.) Plant used for the preparation of the yeast cake demonstrated highest value of Fic (0.89).
Assam
Bodo tribes
BTAD
EthnobotanyWild
Wild edible plants
Ethnobotanical investigation of wild edible plants consumed by the Bodo tribal community of BTAD region of Assam, India - pp788-795
Present study documents the wild edible plant used by the Bodo community of BTAD, Assam. Study was carried out in 10 villages of each BTAD district from 2022 to 2024. Total of 160 informants were interviewed which used 154 ethnobotanical species belonging to 130 genera and 66 plant families. 120 species out of 154 plant species reported were dicots, 31 species were monocots, while 3 species have been reported as pteridophytes. Hypericum japonicum (Hypericaceae) was reported with highest Use Value Index (UV: 0.045), followed by Oldenlandia corymbosa with (UV: 0.0375.) Plant used for the preparation of the yeast cake demonstrated highest value of Fic (0.89).
Assam
Bodo tribes
BTAD
EthnobotanyWild
Wild edible plants