Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• R. Kalvandi ¹
• K. Safikhani ¹
• Gh. Najafi ¹
• P. Babakhanlo ²

¹ Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Hamedan

² Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands

Abstract

Collection and Determination of Medicinal Plants in Hamedan province have been carried out since 1995 for five years in the center of national resources and animal affairs of Hamedan province. Medicinal plants of different regions were collected by using field study and information of experienced people traditional medicine. Some informations including scientific name, family name, Persian name, local name, botany specifications, distribution area in the province, herbarium number,  habitat, the height from sea level,  utilized organ, manner of usage, liables to use in traditional and  local medicine, and  chemical composition in species, etc. were recorded for each medicinal plant.  By the end of project, totally 6000 herbaceous species were collected from different regions of the province, which 315 medicinal plants were identified and related to 71 families and 209 genus. These numbers included species which were self-grown (wild) in natural resource boards of province and 159 species have traditional usage in the province and 156 species are out of traditional and indigenous use but they are called medicinal plants in drug resources.

Keywords

• Medicinal plants
• Hamedan provinc
• identification