ABSTRACT
Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, India, is blessed with diversified flora of more than 1200 plant species, and has Tharu tribals inside as well as around the forests. The tribals have strong belief in magicotherapeutic properties of plants for treatment of their ailments. The vegetation of the area is mainly 370characterized by large member of herbaceous plants growing on variety of habitats along with scattered occurrence of many indigenous and exotic species of trees and shrubs in open areas or cultivated in gardens and along road sides. The North Central Terai belt in which Bahraich is situated is next to North East and Western Ghats, which represents one of the 18 hot spots of the world mega biodiversity. Despite this richness, the wealth of traditional knowledge is being lost, as the traditional culture is gradually disappearing; hence, we have taken this project to document and describe the potent, nutrimental, ethnomedicinal, and horticultural flora of the studied area.
