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Local Knowledge on Wild Edible and Economically Important Pteridophytes of India: A Review

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Wild edible plants provide a wide range of dietary benefits in the form of bioactives, minerals, and fibers. Pteridophytes (ferns and lycophytes) are an important source of edible plants and play a significant role among rural communities in India and elsewhere. Despite many phytochemical and biological studies of pteridophytes, much less attention has been paid to traditional knowledge of their dietary, medicinal, and other uses. We address this gap with an overview of traditional uses of wild edible and economically important pteridophytic species in India, their pharmacological importance, and major phytochemicals. A total of 142 species belonging to 26 families and 66 genera were noted as edible and economically important species. The data show a strong relationship between indigenous communities and wild pteridophytic species as a potential source of their livelihood. This local ecological knowledge on pteridophytes can be preserved and utilized to combat dietary deficiencies, improve the livelihoods of rural communities, and could guide future research programs to encourage socioeconomic development in rural areas and biodiversity conservation. This is the first report to broadly review the edible and economic uses of pteridophytes in India.

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  1. The fronds of Allantodia aspera (Gaur & Bhatt, 1994), Diplazium esculentum (Kagyung et al., 2010), Blechnum orientale (Singh & Singh, 2013), Stenochlaena palustris (Yumkham et al., 2016), Pteridium aquilinum (Rethy et al., 2010), Lygodium microphyllum (Jain, 1991), Marsilea minuta (Kumar & Saikia, 2020) and Ceratopteris thalictroides (Manickam et al., 2004) were used as leafy vegetables (Choudhury et al., 2010; Kar, 2004; Yumkham et al., 2016).

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The corresponding author thanks the Science for Equity, Empowerment, and Development (SEED) division of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, for financial support (Grant No. DST/SEED/ TSP/STI/2020/333) in writing this manuscript.

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  1. Department of Botany, Sri Kaliswari College (Autonomous), (Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University), Sivakasi, India

    Jeyalatchagan Sureshkumar

  2. Department of Botany, A.V.V.M. Sri Pushpam College, Poondi (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University), Thanjavur, India, 613503

    Christopher Jenipher & Muniappan Ayyanar

  3. Department of Pharmacognosy, Goa College of Pharmacy, Panaji, Goa University, Goa, India

    Shailendra S. Gurav

  4. Department of Phytopharmaceuticals (Traditional Pharmacy), Faculty of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

    Ehsan Amiri-Ardekani

  5. Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

    Ehsan Amiri-Ardekani

  6. R.C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Shirpur, Maharashtra, India

    Mohan G. Kalaskar

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JS and CJ made the literature survey and written the original draft; SSG, EA, and MGK assisted in writing the original draft and analysed the data; MA supervised the entire review process and edited the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Sureshkumar, J., Jenipher, C., Gurav, S.S. et al. Local Knowledge on Wild Edible and Economically Important Pteridophytes of India: A Review. Hum Ecol 51, 937–977 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00445-6

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