Title

A database on endemic plants at Tirumala hills in India

Authors

Shaik Abdul Latheef^{1, *}, Beerkam Prasad¹, Middi Bavaji¹, Gangapatnam Subramanyam¹

Affiliation

¹Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati - 517 507

Email

yakheen@rediffmail.com; * Corresponding Author

Article Type

Web Database

Date

received October 27, 2007; revised November 13, 2007; accepted January 21, 2008; published January 27, 2008

Abstract

Medicinal plants play an important role in health care. The use of medicinal plants for treatment is growing in view of cost and non-compliance of modern medicine as in case of non-communicable diseases. Plants such as Boswellia, ovalifoliolata, Cycas beddomei, Pimpinella tirupatiensis, Pterocarpus santalinus, Shorea thumbuggaia, Syzygium alternifolium, Terminalia pallida are endemic to Tirumala hills of seshachalam range falling under the Eastern Ghats of India.These plants species have medicinal properties such as anti-tumorogenic, anti-microbial, purgative, hypoglycemic, abortificient, analgesic, anti-septic, anti-pyretic and anti-inflammatory. We created a database named DEPTH in an attempt to communicate data of these plants to the scientific community. DEPTH contains data on scientific name, vernacular name, family name, morphological description, economic importance, known medicinal compounds and medicinal importance.

http://svimstpt.ap.nic.in/MedicinalPlants/mainpage.htm

Keywords

Tirumala hills; endemic plants; economic importance; medicinal importance

Citation

Latheef, et al., Bioinformation 2(6): 260-262 (2008)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.