This study aims to assess and evaluate the number of traditional commercially important medicinal plants of the Sirumalai hills of Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Based on a field survey this documentation has been studied during 2014. Purpose of this documentation was to identify and quantify the most important medicinal plants used for the general health of the indigenous people of Sirumalai Hills. Due to the modern civilization most of the places ethnomedicianal information was gathered through questionnaire from the tribal and non-tribal people of Sirumalai hills in Tamil Nadu. In the present study, we have reported 20 species of medicinally important pteridophytes plants belonging to 12 families distributed in 18 genera. Our study concluded that, the wealth of traditional ethnomedicinal knowledge of Pteridophytes, population of certain medicinal plant species to a great potential for research in the discovery of new drugs to fight diseases.
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