Table 3 Use of major ethnobotanicals by Adi community in remote locations to sustain life
Local name | Botanical name | Seasonal availability | Purpose | Availability in forest typology | Part used |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adi litchi | Nephelium lappaceum | May–June | Fruit | MG, MK | Fruit |
Akshap | Mussenda roxburghii | Year round | Vegetable and medicine for diabetes | R, HG, PG | Leaf |
Anke | Aesculus assamica | September–October | Food during drought | MG, MK | Seed |
Bamboo tenga | Bambusaarundinacea | May to September | Food | R, MG, MK | Stem |
Bangko | Solanum spirale | Year round | Food | Mo, R, HG | Leaf |
Belang | Artocarpus heterophyl-lus | June–July | Fruit (earlier used as drought food) | Mo, MG, MK | Seed |
Ddony gori | Cassia tora | May August | Vegetable and medicine in skin diseases, and as soil mulch | R | Leaf & seed |
Dhenkia saag | Diplazium esculentum | April to June and September–October | Vegetable specially during flood | Mo,R, HG | Leaf |
Dipo talo | Tepustria aurantiaca | May to September | Used in fishing | Mo, R, HG | Leaf |
Era-paat | Ricinus communis | October to December | Used in skin diseases | R, Mo | Leaf |
Hevali | Nyctanthes arbor-tristis | April to August | Used in stomach disorders | R, HG | Leaf |
Hilika | Terminallia chebula | October to December | Used in reducing blood sugar, stomach disorders | MG, MK | Fruit |
Kopi | Solanum viarum | May to September | As vegetable and in stomach disorders | R, HG, Mo | Fruit |
Koppir | Solanum xanthocarpum | May to September | As vegetable and in stomach disorders | R, HG, PG, Mo | Fruit |
Kordoi | Averrhoa carambola | October December | Used in treating jaundice | R, HG, PG | Fruit |
Jojing balang | Physalis minima | May to August | Used as vegetable | R, MG | Leaf |
Marsang | Spilanthes paniculata | May to September | Used as vegetable and in fishing | R, PG | Leaf |
Morshi | Piper mullesua | April to September | Used as vegetable | R, HG | Leaf |
Namdung | Perilla ocymoides | February to March | Used as fermented food and chutney, given to pregnant women for Mg and Ca | R, HG | Seed |
Namiperi | Artemisia nilagarica | April to September | Used in cut and wound | R | Leaf |
Nayang/oko-bodo/nami-pasi | Erigeron canadensis | May to August | Used as fragrant in fishes | R, HG | Leaf |
Ogjok | Bahunia variegata | April to July | Used as vegetable | HG, R, PG | Leaf |
Ombeng | Xanthoxylum nitidum | Year round | Food and medicine in high blood pressure | R, HG | Fruit |
Onger | Xanthoxylum rhetsa | Year round | Food and medicine in high blood pressure and stomach disorders | R, HG, PG, TTG | Leaf |
Ongin | Clerodendrum colebrookianum Linn. | Year round | Used as vegetable and in diabetes | R, HG, PG | Leaf |
Ori, Sayong/kebu Nanung | Polygonum sp | Year round | Used as vegetable | R, HG | Leaf |
Oyik | Pouzolzia benettiana | May to August | Used as vegetable | HG, R | Leaf |
Paput | Gnepalium affine | Â | Â | HG, R | Leaf |
Pettu | Brassica sp. | May to August | Used as vegetable for new mothers | R, HG | Leaf |
Rukdik | Amphineuron opulatum | May to August | Used in cut, wound and skin diseases, fish poison | R, HG | Leaf |
Sajna | Moringa oleifera | March to May | Used as vegetables and given to pregnant women and new mother | R, HG | Fruit and leaf |
Singlum | Callophyllum resintfertum | May to August | Sap is used for fragrance | R | Leaf |
Takeng | Zingiber spp. Linn | October to April | Used as spices and curing cough and cold | R, HG | Rhizome |
Tapy | Gymnostema pedata | May to September | Used in skin stomach disorders | R, HG, PG | Leaf |
Thniglung | Mitragyna rotundifolia Roxb | May to August | Used in skin diseases | R, HG | Leaf |
Yelong | Polygonatum multiflorum | May to September | Used in fever | R, HG, PG | Leaf |
Yikro | Urticaceae family plant | May to September | Used in fever | R | Leaf |
Yocle | Plectrarphos japarca | May to August | Â | R | Leaf |