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Abstract
Present study deals with the ethnomedicinal knowledge of some medicinal plants used by the Porja tribe of
Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh. The study yielded 26 ethnomedicinal plant species as many as genera and
families curing various diseases.Commelina erecta and 34 practices were found to be new.