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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="life-sciences" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2477</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7324/IJCRR.2018.10808</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Life Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Some Endemic Medicinal Plants Confined to Limestone Habitats of Imereti, West Georgia (the Caucasus) and Their Conservation Statuses&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Cheishvili</surname><given-names>Tamar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Matchutadze</surname><given-names>Izolda</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>28</day><month>04</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>38</fpage><lpage>41</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Aim of study:__ampersandsignnbsp;The study was aimed at collecting data on traditional use and assessing conservation statuses of some of the Caucasus endemic medicinal plants confined to limestone habitats.&#13;
Materials and Methods:__ampersandsignnbsp;The data used in the study are a part of floristic investigations conducted from 1996 to 2008 in different parts Imereti, West Georgia (the Caucasus Biodiversity Hotspot). Data on distribution, ecology, population state (rare, scarce,&#13;
common), threats collected by the author were used for IUCN Red List assessment of the four target species.&#13;
Results:__ampersandsignnbsp;Conservation statuses of the four target species used in traditional medicine were assessed as follows: Corylus imeretica Kem.-Nath., Potentilla imerethica Gagnidze and__ampersandsignnbsp;M. Sochadze (endemic to Imereti)__ampersandsignnbsp;__ampersandsignndash;__ampersandsignnbsp;VU;__ampersandsignnbsp;Cyclamen colchicum (Albov)__ampersandsignnbsp;Albov (endemic to Georgia)__ampersandsignnbsp;__ampersandsignndash;__ampersandsignnbsp;VU;__ampersandsignnbsp;Quercus imeretina Stev. ex Woronow (endemic to the Caucasus)__ampersandsignnbsp;__ampersandsignndash;__ampersandsignnbsp;VU.&#13;
Conclusions:__ampersandsignnbsp;The presented species need to be more thoroughly studied for their active compounds to justify the traditional usage of the species and search for possibilities of their use in modern medicine. Since natural resources of these species are limited and their populations experience negative effects of various factors acting as threats, relevant conservation measures are to be elaborated to protect their populations that may occur an important source for obtaining compounds with a potential to be used in medicine.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Endemic plants</kwd><kwd> Limestone habitats</kwd><kwd> Colchis</kwd><kwd> Caucasus Biodiversity Hotspot</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
