INVENTORY AND NEED OF CONSERVATION OF THE MEDICINAL FLORA IN THE ARID CENTRE-WEST OF ARGENTINA

The potential of the regional flora and vegetation is still incompletely known.
The inventory and conservation of the medicinal and aromatic plants in performed within the analysis of the whole vegetation.

The whole territory undergoes the increasing impact of degradation, which becomes desertification in certain areas.
Knowledge of biodiversity at the specific and infraspecific levels is an urgent task, before it is affected by degradation.
Different methodologies are applied to achieve this objective.
The continuous exploration of the territory, the Phytosociology, the Chorology, and the Geobotanic Cartography are valuable assistants of the Taxonomy.

To these efforts, it can be added the ethnobotanic information, the conservation of germplasm ex situ and in situ through a rich web of protected areas and an educational program in continuous development.
Different official organisms join their efforts in the inventory and conservation of both wild and cultivated medicinal and aromatic plants.

II WOCMAP Congress Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Part 1: Biological Resources, Sustainable Use, Conservation and Ethnobotany

F.A. Roig

vegetation, degradation, biodiversity, medicinal plants, aromatic plants, conservation

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1999.500.23