IUCN RED LISTED MEDICINAL PLANTS AND THEIR CONSERVATION ISSUES FROM FLORA OF TELANGANA

The state of Telangana situated on the south central stretch of the Indian Peninsula and on the eastern sideof the Deccan plateau. The regionhas tropical climate with drymixed deciduous, thorny scrub forests and with open grasslands home for a wide variety of medicinal plants. Over centuries many of the medicinal plants have been exploiting from the wild by the locals and the pharma companies. Over exploitation of raw material from the wild resources and habitat losstheir populations have dramatically reduced and threatened. As on today, there is no consolidated information on the medicinal plants exploiting from the wild and which have been listed in the threatened category of the global conservations status IUCN red list. The present study reports ca. 350 medicinal plants occurring wild in the state. Out of them, there are 51 species are categorized under threatened category of IUCN red list. The consolidated list of threatened medicinal plants presented and their global conservation issues discussed in detail.