MEDICINAL PLANTS EXHIBIT VARIATION IN LEAF MORPHOLOGY FROM FLORA OF TELANGANA, INDIA

Intraspecific variation in medicinal plants known from since ancient times from India region. Many of the medicinal plants belong to flowering plants expressing the variations at different levels in a isolated populations or in a single individual. Particularly the medicinal plants exhibit variation is leads to the much confusion in the local and indigenous systems of medicines. Investigation and identification of intraspecific medicinal plants from flora of Telangana region and its causes and consequences in the local and traditional medicines are discussed in detail in the present paper.