Conservation status of medicinal plants in ladakh: Cold arid zone of trans-Himalayas

Research Journal of Medicinal Plant

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 685-694

  Phani Kumar, G ^a   Kumar, Raj ^a   Chaurasia, O P ^a  

^a Leh Ladakh C o 56APO   (India)

Author keywords

Amchi system; Ladakh; Medicinal plants; RET plants; Trans Himalayas

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GERMINATION; HARVEST PERIOD; HUMIDITY; INDIA; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MANURE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MESOPHYTE; NONHUMAN; PLANT TAXONOMY; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VEGETATION; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 79959749929     PISSN: 18193455     EISSN: 21517924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/rjmp.2011.685.694     Document Type: Article

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