Sacred plants used in Phagli festival of Malana village in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh

摘要

Village Malana in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh has been subjected to all sorts of investigations and has been described in newspapers and magazines as the Republic of Malana; a little Greece in Malana; the Drug Mafia in Malana; do’s and don’tsin Malana, etc. Persistent and adamant efforts by the local inhabitants to retain their unique age-old heritage, the Malanis over the centuries have learnt to live in tune with nature. The civilized modem world has a lot to learn from the ‘Malanis’. In the present paper nine ethnobotanically important plant species of Malana village are enumerated along with their common names, vernacular names, family, place of collection and local uses.