Ethnomedicinal plants used by Mali tribes of Ananthagiri Mandal, Alluri Sitaramaraju District, A.P, India

An ethnomedicinal survey was carried out in Ananthagiri Mandal, Alluri Sitaramaraju District, Andhra Pradesh, India. For documentation of important ethnomedicinal plants and information from the local Mali community about their medicinal uses. The traditional knowledge of primitive Mali tribe traditional uses was collected through questionnaires and personal interviews during field trips. The identification and nomenclature of the listed plants were based on the Flora of Andhra Pradesh. A total of 60 plant species belong to 53 genera and 37 families were identified by taxonomic description and locally by ethnomedicinal knowledge of people existing in the region