Medicinal plants in the Ropotamo Reserve

Абстракт

The paper presents the recent diversity and conservational importance of the medicinal plants in the Ropotamo Reserve (SE Bulgaria): 211 species from 181 genera and 68 families. They comprised significant part of the total plants biodiversity of the reserve, which consisted of 550 species.

The spread of the medicinal plants in different habitats of European significance was shown together with the threatened status of the species and their relative abundance. The distribution of all medicinal species was analyzed according to the frequency or rarity of their occurrence and it was proved that the reserve area hosted some rare for Bulgaria species of medicinal plants.

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