Indigenous knowledge of trees used by Malayali tribes of Chitteri hills, Southern Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu

An ethnobotanical survey was carried out to document traditional knowledge of tree usage among the Malayali tribes through interviews and various data collection methods. The present ethnobotanical exploration revealed that the Malayali tribal people of the Chitteri hills use around 166 species of trees belonging to 118 genera under 49 families for their day today needs.Their uses have been mentioned in the attached table (Table 1).