References 1.Chaudhary,P.Ram.1998.Biodiversity in Nepal.

[status and conservation] page 2 , 9,10(for geographic study of Nepal) & various scientific names of plants listed 2.Ghimire,S.K,Pyakurel,D,Nepal B.K , Sapkota I.B, Parajuli R.R and Oli,V.R 2008.A manual of NTFPs of Nepal Himalaya .WWF Nepal Program,Kathmandu ,Nepal.p 206 (for the distribution of various plants in different geographical zone) 3 Manandhar,p,N & manandhar sanjay 2002. Plants and people of Nepal.Timber press ,Portland,Oregon.p 361-362 Rokaya MB, Mnzbergov Z, Timsina B. 2010 Aug 9485-504 Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants from the Humla district of western Nepal.Journal of Ethnopharmacology P 485-504 ( plants occurring in Nepal.) .GoN 2007.Medicinal Plants of Nepal.Bulletin of the Department of Plant Resources No.28.Ministry of Forest and soil conservation ,Thapathali ,Kathmandu,Nepal p 402(for use as herbal remedy in traditional medicine) .Adhikari,Bhaskar 2010.Systematics & Phylogeographic studies of Berberis (Berberideceae) in Nepal Himalaya.University of Edinburgh.(features of berberis ,types ) p 281-290 .sargent,Le Roy.Frederick.1984.Popular science.p 594-608.( for structural features of berberris plants) . chopra, Priyush 1991.Chopra`s indigenous drugs of India.Academic publishers. P 479(berberry intro) Bhattarai, Shandesh ,Ram P Chaudhary, and Robin SL Taylor.2006. Ethnomedicinal plants used by the people of Manang district, central Nepal.Journal of ethnobotany and ethnomedicine.(use of various plants in folk medicine) Linnaeus ,v,Carl,1821.System Naturae . Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany.volume 2,p381(for classification of berberris) Sushim Ranjan Baral and Puran Prasad Kurmi, IUCN The World Conservation Union, 2006. A Compendium of Medicinal Plants in Nepal .p 282( for berberis usage)

MIKAGE M (Kanazawa Univ., Kanazawa, Jpn) MOURI C (Kanazawa Univ., Kanazawa, Jpn),1999. Pharmacognostical Studies of Berberis Plants (Berberidaceae) from Nepal. (1). Altitudinal, Interspecific, and Partial Variations of Berberine Content in the Bark. Nat Med.volume 53.p 249-254 Parmer ,c & Kaushal K.M 1982.Wild fruits .Kalyani Publishers,New Delhi,India.p12-14

Bhandari DK, Nath G, Ray AB &Tewari PV. 2008. Antimicrobial activity of crude extracts from berberis asiatica stem bark. Pharmaceutical Biology p 254-257. Andola Chandra Harish,Rawal ,S.Ranbeer & Bhatt,D.Indra.2010. Comparative studies on the nutritive and anti-nutritive properties of fruits in selected Berberis species of West Himalaya, India.Food international Pvt.Ltd. Volume 44 issue 7 P 2352-2356 Balasubramani ,P.Subramani,Goraya ,S.Gurinder & Venkatasubramanian, Padma 3 december 2010. Development of ITS sequence-based markers to distinguish Berberis aristata DC. from B. lycium Royle and B. asiatica Roxb. springer link.com Biswas TK, Mukherjee B (2003) Plant medicines of Indian origin for wound healing activity: a review. Int J Low Extreme Wounds 2:2539(usage of Berberis) Anonymous (1999) The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India, Part I,Vol II. Government of India, Ministry of Health and FamilyWelfare, Department of Indian Systems of Medicine & Homoeopathy, New Delhi, pp 3334.(berberis description) Photos http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/73764/ http://www.labunix.uqam.ca/~fg/MyFlora/Berberidaceae/Berberis/berberis.e.sht ml(for map http://www.healthandherbs.ie/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=53