Investigation of the medicinal plant resources and their diversity at Changbaishan Mountain Areas, northeastern China

Authors ZHOU Yao; YU Junlin; ZHANG Bengang; XU Kexue

Journal Journal of Beijing Forestry University , 2007,3:29

Abstract Based on the investigation for seven years, the medicinal plants in Changbaishan Mountain, northeastern China were found to include 33 forms, 130 varieties and 1 063 species of plants, belonging to 481 genera and 129 families, which account for 9.00%, 22.71% and 47.60% of the respective species, genera and families of medicinal plant resources in all of China. There are 61 species of rare and endangered medicinal plants at Changbaishan Mountain, accounting for 5.74% of the medicinal plants there. Furthermore, there are 699 species of perennial herbs, occupying 65.76 % of the plants in Changbaishan Mountain, as well as 25 species of native medicinal plants in the northeast area of the mountain, accounting for 2.35% of the medicinal plants. In this area, whole herbs, roots and rhizomes used as medicinal materials occupy 47.60% , 19.00% and 11.01% of the medicinal plants there; and antipyretic medicine and rheumatism medicine account for 54.00% and 11.01% of them, respectively. Of the total amount of species, 93.51% are distributed in Korean pine broadleaved-conifer mixed forest zones with an altitude of 450 -1 000 m. Dominant families are mainly Composiatae, Ranunculaceae, Liliaceae, etc; dominant genera are mainly Polygonum, Aconitum, Potentilla, etc. Some suggestions for protection and exploitation of the medicinal plants were put forward.

Species covered 蓼属 Polygonum