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RESEARCH ON SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS COMMERCIALLY
SOLD IN THE HAVRAN AND BURHAN�YE REGION (BALIKES�R)
R�dvan POLAT 1 , Fatih SATIL 1
1 Bal�kesir University, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, Biology Department, Bal�kesir
rpolat10@hotmail.com
This study focussed on the commerce of medicinal plants, an important category for
ethnobotany. It was carried out with the purpose of identifying commercially used medicinal
plants that grow wild in the Havran and Burhaniye regions.
The main material of this study being plants gathered and sold in the regions
mentioned above. Field work was concentrated in the zones where the plants in question are
most intensively gathered, as well as in the local markets where the plants are offered for sale.
Results and observation in the course of the reserach indicate that the Hypericum
perforatum (Hypericaceae), Lavandula stoechas, Melissa officinalis ssp. altissima, Salvia
tomentosa, Sideritis athoa, Origanum onites, Origanum vulgare ssp. hirtum, Teucrium polium
and Thymbra spicata var. spicata (Labiatae) were among plant types intensively used for
commerce.
The nine taxa named above are the medicinal plants the most intensively gathered and
sold in the region. Due to the rapid increase in medicinal plant gathering, and haphazard
gathering in the region, an important threat to these plants have been observed.
Keywords: Ethnobotanical, Medicinal Plants, Commercial Plants, Havran, Burhaniye
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