Abstrakt

Encephalartos an Endangered Genus

Teena Agrawal

Gymnosperms are the tremendous products of the evolution, they have the reservoirs of the many kinds of the genes and the other metabolites of the medicinal significance. The era of the Mesozoic was the golden period of their development. Now they are under many kinds of the natural and the anthropogenic threats, IUCN declared these groups as the endangered species by the new version 3.1, well in this review articles we are presenting some of the aspects and conservation status of the genus termed as Encephalartos. This is the endemic plant of the South Africa; the South Africa is the centre of the origin of this Cycad. Well many of the tribal peoples are utilising this cycad from the thousands of the years for their own beneficiation and other spiritual purposes. This tremendous genus needs the conservation for the survival of the genus for the economic and evolutionary beneficiation