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Plants has special role in religious, cultural and social ceremonies of every communities of the nation.The use of plants in different religious practices is possibly the earliest and most prevalent form of religion.Traditional knowledge related to various religious and supernatural beliefs and folklores help the rural and indigenous communities in the protection of local plants from destruction.The taboos, festivals, rituals rites and other cultural ascepts play important role in the preservation and protection of surrounding phytodiversity on the basis of religious ground.The plants are also conserved by these ethnic and indigenous people that serve as a source of wild edible food, and as a source of agricultural and horticultural plants .Some of the indigenous plant species are conserved by the ethnic and indigenous people through agricultural cultivars improvement programme which increase productivity and incorporates the traits for providing the resistance against different pests and diseases. But as insitu mode of conservation, these plants are mostly conserved by tribal or indigenous people of study area due there sacredness and being worshiped by tribal people or indigenous people as home of god and goddess and for magico-religious beliefs .Plants are conserved in the abandoned site of shifting the agricultural by tribal people and in the sacred groove as insitu conservation of bio-diversity and ecological restoration