Quantification of medicinally valuable weeds in oil palm plantations of Kerala.

摘要: The medicinally valuable weeds naturally growing in young, medium and mature plantations of oil palm were identified quantified by stratified random sampling technique. Quantification plants was done comparison with that the open condition. Chrysopogon aciculatus Trin. dominates all four strata. Naregamia alata Wight & Arn. is another dominant species plantation. Hemidesmus indicus R. Br. occurs frequently Another occurring young plantation Elephantopus scaber Linn, Chromolaena odorata King Robinson. Phyllanthus amarus Schum.& Thonn. very frequent Holostemma adakodien Schult Young condition found to be most similar strata whereas dissimilar vegetation pair-wise analysis. Medium have high concentration dominance. Species diversity highest evenness maximum