Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• H.R. Mirdavoodi ¹
• P. Babakhanlo ²

¹ Agriculture and Natural Resources Research Center of Markazi Province, Arak, Iran

² Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands

Abstract

Markazi province has different types of climatic conditions due to its location which is inside the angle of Alborz and Zagros mountain chains. As a consequence of such a charactrisitic it possess a great variety of diversity of plant species. On the basis of existing reports and scientific resources as well as field investigations, 144 species were introduced from Markazi as medicinal plants. They belonged to 127 genera and 48 famillies, that Compositeae and Labiateae were dominant. The distribution of some of these species are limited to special habitats and elevations. Majority of them have wide distribution in the province and changes of altitude and rainfall are not effective.

Keywords

• Medical plants
• Markazi Province
• distribution
• rangelands