SOME ENDANGERED MEDICINAL PLANTS OF TERAI REGION OF GORAKHPUR DIVISION

Reetika Yadav and Tulika Mishra*

ABSTRACT

India has a very rich plant biodiversity, many of which are medicinally useful. The rich resource is disappearing at an alarming rate due to over-exploitation, habitat destruction, climate change and migratory challenges. The management of medicinal plant resources has become a matter of urgency due to great demand of the pharmaceutical industry and lesser supplies of the medicinal species. The existing legislative mechanisms and policy parameters are not sufficient to overcome the challenges of conservation of the endangered and rare plants which have grave danger of extinction in the near future. Intervention of biotechnological tools like micropropagation, bioinformatics and metabolomics offer great help for research in conservation of rare medicinal plant. Some endangered medicinal plants of Gorakhpur Division are Rauvolfia serentina Benth.ex Kurz, Withania somnifera (L.)Dunal, Gloriosa superba L., Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.) Raeusch and Saraca asoca (Roxb.)W.J.de Wilde, Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennell. Current Review is done regarding some endangered plants of Terai Region of Gorakhpur division.

Keywords: Endangered plants, Medicinal, Gorakhpur.