Malvaceae

A Floristic survey for documentation of medicinal plants was conducted based on the participatory observations and field visit across Andhra University Campus, Visakhapatnam city during January, 2023 to April, 2023 with the aim of collecting and identifying medicinal flora and documentation of medicinal properties of plants occurring in this campus.The total area of the Andhra University is 200 hectares out of which a huge land is free from any kind of constriction of buildings that provide habit for many wild medicinal plant species. This study resulted in record of 101 medicinal plant species pertains to 90 genera under 48 families. The dominant family Fabaceae was represented by maximum number of 6 genera and 7 species followed by Malvaceae. All the plants have been described with their scientific names, family, medicinal value, habit, and habitat and voucher number. All the dried specimens were deposited to the herbarium collection of ICFRE-Coastal Ecosystem Centre (ICFRE-CEC), Visakhapatnam in the form of complete herbarium sheets for future reference. The data presented will be a valuable source of information for management of medicinal plant resources in the Andhra University campus.