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Native and endemic plants are considered as genetic reserves of every habitat and due to favorable morphological traits, resistance to pests and diseases and adaptation to ecological conditions are of utmost importance. The aim of the current research was to identify medicinal plants from Arasbaran flora, Mardanaghomchay watershed and ethnobotanical study related to medicinal plants and its determinant factors. To achieve this goal, after identifying the region's flora and separation of the medicinal plants, data were randomly collected through questionnaires as 180 samples were taken from the population over 20 years old. The results showed that 30% of the region's flora included valuable medicinal plants belonging to 56 genera and 30 families, among them Labiatae, Compositae, Rosacea, Urticaceae, Umbellifereae and Grossulariaceae respectively were more harvested by local people for medicinal purposes. Data analysis of the questionnaires in SPSS software with coefficient correlation of Spearman and Kruskal-Wallis test revealed that among the effective factors on identification of medicinal plants in the region, the relationship between knowledge and harvesting of medicinal plants and access to rural health center for treatment was significant (P= 0.05). It means that access to the physician has been effective on knowledge of the local people with medicinal plants and its relation with access of foresters to surrounding towns for cure is significant while there was no significant relation between the knowledge and rural people age, literacy level and the consumption of synthetic drugs (P= 0.05).
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