Table 2 Detail ecological description of the priority species, their uses and status as perceived by the collectors
From: Ecological status of high altitude medicinal plants and their sustainability: Lingshi, Bhutan
Species | Common name (Dzongkha) | Location description | Local name | Local use | Collectors’ perception score | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abundance | Threatened | Valuable | Most collected | ||||||
Aconitum orochryseum | Bongkar | Found in heavily grazed grasslands; Churki, Sepchu, Walethang and Geshoy | Unknown | Unknown | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Rare and threatened |
Chrysosplenium nudicaule | Yakima | Grassland and occasionally Rhodendron; Chewla, Yakla and Chewphu | Unknown | Unknown | 13 | 1 | 0 | 5 | Most abundant and 2nd most collected |
Corydalis dubia | Rezeun | Grassland of Chebesa, Gangyul and Lingshi Dzong | Reken | Unknown | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | Abundant, threatened, valuable but rarely collected |
Corydalis crispa | Bashaka | Fine and shallow gravels; Chebesa, Gangyul | Unknown | Eaten by yak | 11 | 8 | 7 | 5 | Most abundant, also threatened, valuable, and most collected |
Dactylorhiza hatagirea | Wangla | Found in grassland (often with scattered Rhododendron, Salix and/or Juniperus) and dense herbaceous vegetation Lingshi, Naro | Ja ola Omla | Rhizome eaten as food | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 | Rare, threatened, 3rd most valuable, and rarely collected |
Delphinium glaciale | Jagodpoe | Scree slopes Boeza, Chewla and Lolung (Chewphu) | Use as incense and also eaten by Blue sheep | 5 | 8 | 12 | 1 | Abundant | |
Fritillaria delavayi | Tseka | Scree slopes of Chebesa and Gangyul | Consumed as vegetable, seed and bulb also eaten, flowers grazed by blue sheep | 0 | 8 | 7 | 0 | Rare, threatened and hardly collected | |
Gentiana urnula | Gangachung | Steep scree slopes (small to medium size stones) Chebesa and Gangyul | Eaten by yak | 11 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Most abundant, | |
Meconopsis horridula | Tserngon | Rocky slopes with a mixture of scree and patches of grasses, herbs and mosses | Omrim | 18 | 7 | 2 | 8 | Most abundant, threatened, medium value and most collected | |
Meconopsis simplicifolia | Udpel sngonpo | Relatively widespread in slopes and in valley usually on damp ground in small but only in scattered patches | Geche metog | 0 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Rare, threatened, medium value and occasionally collected | |
Nardostachys grandiflora | Pangpoe | Open grassland and sparsely among Rhododendron shrubs | Use as incense | 0 | 9 | 13 | 0 | Rare, threatened, high value, rarely collected | |
Onosma hookeri | Dimug | Grassland area of scattered Juniperus | Muksi | Use as religious dye for ceremony | – | – | 1 | – | – |
Neopicrorhiza scrophulariflora | Putishing | Relatively widespread among Thododendron and small wood clearing | Use as decoction to cold | – | – | 1 | – | – | |
Rhodiola crenulata | Solo marpo | Yangtay, Chewla, Yakla, Boeza and Chewphu on steep, rocky, scree slopes or boulder slopes with scattered patched of herbaceous vegetation and mosses | Tsemarp, lamichop | – | 8 | 11 | 2 | Rare, threatened, high value and occasionally collected | |
Saussurea gossypiphora | Jagod supa | Found scattered on patches of grassland and slopes with scree and moss | Eaten by blue sheep and also for filling pillows in past | 17 | 2 | 5 | 2 | Most abundant, low value and rarely collected | |
Veronica celiata | Domnag domthri | On grazed grassland on gentle slopes | 7 | 12 | 9 | 3 | Scarce, most threatened, medium value and occasionally collected | ||