Ethnomedicinal plants of fifteen clans of the Garo tribal community of Madhupur in Tangail district, Bangladesh.

The Garo tribal community is one of the largest indigenous communities and resides primarily in the northcentral districts of Bangladesh. They claim themselves to belong to about 45 clans. An ethnomedicinal survey was conducted among the traditional medicinal practitioners of fifteen clans of the Garo community residing in Madhupur sub-district of Tangail district in Bangladesh. These fifteen clans represented people from the Nokrek, Dibya, Hadima, Chammug, Morong, Chisim, Simsa, Mangsha, Jencham, Dio, Ajim, Dhalbot, Chirang, Rondhi, and Athiora clans and consisted of about 12,000 people. Four tribal practitioners were present among these people. A total of 54 plants were observed to be used by the tribal practitioners. Three plants could not be identified; the rest 51 plants were distributed into…