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Present paper deals about the Palynological studies of some ethnomedicnal plants used by various tribal communities of Chhattisgarh state. The significant tribes of the state are: Gond, Kamar, Oraon, Halba, Baiga, Muria, Kol and Agarias. These plants were used for the treatment of diseases and infections in a safe and traditional ethnotherapy. Morphological studies of pollen grains of 24 ethnomedicinal taxa commonly distributed in entire state, belonging to 23 genera of 18 different families was carried out microscopically. Size, Shape, number, position and character (NPC) of Aperture and nature of Exine ornamentation of pollen grains were used as parameters to identify particular plant. Most of the pollen grains are oblate-spheroidal and prolate-spheroidal in shape. Pollen grains are triporate, tricolpate and tricolporate and their nature of exine ornamentation are psilate and reticulate. The outcome of the present studies shall be applied in the detection of purity of honey through melissopalynology as well as for mapping of the diversity of ethnomedicinal plants in Chhattisgarh state of India and producing evidence in forensic investigations.