title: [Preliminary Investigation of Medicinal Plant Resources in Kangle County, Gansu Province].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the medicinal plant resources and their diversity in Kangle County, Gansu Province, and to provide scientific basis on utilization and protection of the medicinal plant resources of the county.
  
  
  METHODS
  By field survey, sample collection, taxonomic identification and data verification methods.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 258 species, 65 families in existing medicinal plants, of which 43 species, 39 genera and 24 families were national protection medicinal plants. Dominant families were mainly Asteraceae and Rosaceae. In this area,the plants used whole herbs and roots ( or rhizomes) as medicinal materials represented 40.31% and 25.19% respectively, and antipyretic and rheumatism medicine accounted for 28.68% and 12.79% respectively. 12 medicinal plants were cultivated and the cultivated area was 3,000 hectares.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  However, the reserves of most medicinal plants are less enough and the resources are diminishing increasingly in recent years. So we should accelerate the research progress as well as developing and utilizing rationally on the premise of protection.
authors.forename: Xiao-bing
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Shi-hu
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Long-long
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Yan-fei
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Bi-yu
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D019659:Asteraceae; D044822:Biodiversity; D002681:China; D018517:Plant Roots; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000145:classification*; D027343:Rhizome; D027824:Rosaceae