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Present chapter is based on ethnobotanical aspects of wild edible vegetables. First section of this chapter provides brief description of ethnobotanical methods including research design, filed equipments required during ethnobotanical survey, ethnobotanical data collection through interviews and questionnaire, analytical tools for evaluating traditional knowledge, and relative cultural indexes and ecological methods for ethnobotanists. The second section of the chapter comprises ethno-medicinal value of about 50 wild edible vegetables used by the local communities of Lesser-Himalayas-Pakistan. Each vegetable is mentioned along with its botanical and local name, file photograph, family, morphological description, range, and ethnomedicinal value. In the last section taxonomic diversity, parts used, mode of consumption, medicinal values, species cultural importance (mean culture value index “mCI”), and Bio-conservation concerns of wild edible vegetables are briefly discussed.
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Abbasi, A.M., Shah, M.H., Khan, M.A. (2015). Ethnobotanical Aspects of Wild Edible Vegetables. In: Wild Edible Vegetables of Lesser Himalayas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09543-1_4
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