Volume: 54 Issue: 3
Year: 2023, Page: 19-24, Doi: https://doi.org/10.61649/kujos/v54i3.sh
Received: Sept. 15, 2023 Accepted: July 7, 2023 Published: Nov. 1, 2023
Uttara Kannada district having one of the largest forest cover in Karnataka and Bangurnagar degree college, Dandeli, is one of the oldest colleges in Uttara Kannada District. The college is situated near to the Kali Tiger Reserve, Dandeli, which is famous for black panthers, leopards and tigers and floral diversity too. From evergreen forest to deciduous forest, the growing small town of Dandeli is surrounded by thick vegetation of several types of forests. The study area is also having local diversity and visited by birds and animals including Malabar giant squirrel, grey hornbills, Malabar great pied hornbills, peacock, snakes and foxes. As the floral diversity is well maintained by the college staff, campus is conserving 31 plant species of IUCNRET category, a medicinal plant garden and local taxa. Some of the species with ethnomedicinal values are also being studied in the present floral inventory.
Keywords: Dandeli; Ethnomedicine; Floral diversity; Western Ghats; Uttara Kannada
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