Adilabad dt. occupies an area of 16,210 Sq Km with 4,16,511 (16.74%)tribal population. The main objectives of the study are extensive and intensive explorations to record first hand information from tribal practitioners, taxonomic analysis and systemic evaluation of drug yielding plants, impact of tribal culture on forest, vegetation and analysis of different tribal folklore. Gond, Lambada, Kolam, Koya, Pardhan, Manne and Naikpod are the main tribal communities. 412 plant sps included 338 genera and 107 families used in curing different human and veterinary diseases and other ...