The present study on spatial distribution and identify the ethno-medicinal plant using integrates Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques. The Global Positioning System (GPS) are also using for collecting or validating data by ground survey. In the present work the phyto-geographical plants and plant groups are composition of ethno-medicine as well as herbal plants within and around the southern parts of Jangalmahal area West Bengal, India. Using the GIS technique the satellite data and GPS data are overlay and prepare a land use and land cover (LULC) map, and identifying plants species location. The relationship between the land use and medicinal plant species were implemented to explore the plants modelling both spatial and non-spatial data under the GIS platform. The Study area forest covered with 206 medicinal plant species under 164 genera, distributed among 61 plant families under the division Mono-cotyledons and Di-cotyledons. Our checklist represents some dominating families like-Fabaceae (16), Poaceae (13) Asteraceae (13), Euphorbiaceae (13), Malvaceae (11), Apocynaceae (10), Araceae (9), Acanthaceae (8), Solanaceae (7). Rubiaceae (6), Verbenaceae (6) among the 206 species, presented checklist includes herbs (105), shrubs (38), trees (39), climbers (23) and epiphyte (1). In the study area for societal developments are mainly evaluation according to four aspect e.g. population density, educational facility, economic condition, health condition. Finally the focus of the work is given idea of local people for the medicinal plant and management the forest area.
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