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Detailed explanation-1: -Ethnobotany – overview Anthropology, botany, archaeology, geography, medicine, linguistics, economics, landscape architecture, and pharmacology represent modern ethnobotany.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous (native) plants.

Detailed explanation-3: -The study focused on documentation of medicinal plants used to treat various human diseases in the study area. Ethnobotanical data were collected using semistructured interviews, group discussion, guided field walks, and observations with participants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Methodology Ethnobotanical data were collected through semi-structured interviews, field observations, focused group discussions with the informants selected from the study area. Key informants were selected by purposive sampling technique, while the rest, were selected by random sampling techniques.