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Medicinal Plant Diversity in Chittagong, Bangladesh: a Database of 100 Medicinal Plants

Md.Mahadi Hasan
Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Sk Amir Hossain
Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabiab) Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh

Md.Arfan Ali,
Department of Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia b) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Horticulture, Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University, Bangladesh

A.N.M Alamgir
Professor, Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

A database of the medicinal plants of Chittagong was developed by using Microsoft Office Access 2003 program on a windows platform and plant species were arranged following an alphabetic order of scientific names (A-Z) with the attributes like scientific name, vernacular name or local name, family, habit and habitat, parts used and chemical constituent and therapeutic uses for each plant. Database contained 100 medicinal plant species of 52 families covering herb, shrub, climber and tree. Total number of herb species were 53, whereas shrubs, climbers and trees were 28, 3 and 16, respectively. The family Asteraceae contained the highest number of species(8), followed by Apocynaceae(7), Caesalpiniaceae(6), Fabaceae(5), Liliaceae(5), Euphorbiaceae(3), Araceae(3), Solanaceae (3), Poaceae(3) and others. The highest percentage of usable plant parts were the leaf (41%), whereas other usable plant parts were root (22%), bark (12%), fruit (12%), flower (4%), rhizome (2%), stem (2%), seed (2%), tuber (1%),inflorescence (1%), trunk (0.5%) and whole plant (0.5%).Database are emphasized on the importance of setting up conservation priorities, sustainable development and therapeutic uses of various medicinal plants. Eventually this research work will help to search for simple, sensitive and cost-effective drug principle from natural products.

Keywords: Medicinal plant, Database, Windows platform, Therapeutic uses.

Location: Chittagong Division

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Program Area: Development of Host and Medicinal Plants

Commodity: Medicinal Plants

Objectives:

In the present work, an attempt was made to develop a database of the medicinal plants of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Methodology:

The study was conducted as a part of the analysis of the medicinal plant diversity in the flora and to determine their status in the wild for giving conservation priorities. In the present work, 100 medicinal plant species grow in the Chittagong Division were considered for database development. Information of medicinal plant species included in the present database was derived from the results of personal work as well as from different relevant published literature and wave pages. Taxonomic studies of the herbarium specimens of the medicinal plants available at the Bangladesh National Herbarium. The medicinal plant database was developed by using Microsoft Office Access 2003 program on a windows platform and plant species were arranged following an alphabetic order of scientific names (A-Z). In the database attributes used were: scientific name, vernacular name or local name, family, habit and habitat, parts used and chemical constituent and therapeutic uses.Data is encoded by assigning a bit pattern to each language alphabet character. Digit 1 refers to the record number in the database. For example, the accession number of Abelmoschus moschchatus Linn. is 1, where 1 represents record entry in the database. Keywords provisions were given to search the database for identification of specific plant, chemical constituents, therapeutic use and others. Following searching options were available that is find record, add record, delete record. Photographs were taken by a digital camera (Sony-DSC W510)

Source of Information: Journal of Scientific and Innovative Research 2014; 3(5): 500-514 ISSN 2320-4818

Article Link (Online Journal): www.jsirjournal.com

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Achievement/Findings:

It is a open access database of medicinal plants with broad spectrum attributes and may be useful for the scientific community for getting quick information about the medicinal plants of Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, their useful parts, active drug ingredients and therapeutic use. Therapeutic agents of secondary metabolites origin like alkaloids, terpenoids, phenolics and glycosides were the important chemical compounds.

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