Dear Yvette,

Kindly see the given links:

https://www.google.co.in/?gws_rd=ssl#q=sri+lanka+ethnobotany

https://www.google.co.in/?gws_rd=ssl#q=sri+lanka+ethnobotany&start=10

You will be able to find at least some works related to ethnobotanical  studies in Sri Lanka.

With best wishes,

Subir.

Please have a look at this link and PDF attachments also.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224771841_Current_scenario_of_herbal_medicine_in_Sri_Lanka

Conference Paper Current scenario of herbal medicine in Sri Lanka

You would also like to read this article.

 Thank you so much for these links Arvind, I really appreciate it, very interesting papers indeed. I am intrigued by how different the taxa are that are used medicinally etc to those used in India. I remember visiting the Pampelmousse gardens and meeting with the curator who showed me the medicinal garden and I was surprised how many of the plants I was familiar with. However the lists in these papers are almost all new Genera to me! Many thanks once again, Yvette van Wijk 

Dear Dr. Yvette

Here are some more useful links for your persual.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305486185_Plants_used_to_treat_diabetes_in_Sri_Lankan_Siddha_Medicine_-_An_ethnopharmacological_review_of_historical_and_modern_sources

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309635071_EXISTENCE_AND_SURVEY_OF_MEDICINAL_PLANTS_OF_THIRU_PALANI_MURUGAN_KOVIL_ASIKULAM_VAVUNIYA_DISTRICT_NORTHERN_PROVINCE_SRI_LANKA

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274635724_Evaluation_Of_In_Vitro_Antibacterial_Activity_of_Some_Sri_Lankan_Medicinal_Plants

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7311596

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278676140_Effect_of_Sri_Lankan_traditional_medicine_and_Ayurveda_on_Sandhigata_Vata_osteoarthritis_of_knee_joint

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236694655_Sri_Lanka's_Traditional_Knowledge_and_Traditional_Cultural_Expressions_of_Health_and_Wellbeing_History_Present_Status_and_the_Need_for_Safeguarding

Good luck

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Hi Yvette,

Seems your query has been well answered by Subir & Arvind. I'm sorry for my delay in getting back.

Ethnobotany in Sri Lanka is not yet been explored in its full spectrum - there is much more to be documented than what's available in literature.

Hope the following article on non-timber-forest-products from an SL rainforest would also be of interest for you... 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260217178_Sustainable_extraction_of_non-timber_forest_products_in_Dipterocarp_dominant_lowland_rain_forests_a_case_study_in_southwestern_rain_forest_in_Sri_Lanka

Nevertheless this project I'm working on right now does not have much to do with ethnobotany - it is about the spatial patterns of species richness and endemism of SL biota subjected to numerical analyses... for the first time ever...

Cheers!

Conference Paper Sustainable extraction of non-timber forest products in Dipt...

Thank you so much Sandun, I am very grateful for your help. Interesting reading, especially as the taxa are so different to those in India, even in Madya Pradesh and Kerala, what little I have got from there re ethnobotanical plants used by local communities. If you do come across a ethnobotanical study listing the plants used anywhere in Sri Lanka, I would love to get ti even if it is too late to include in my thesis. Maybe you can persuade some post graduates to do projects on it? We were very fond of Bevis Bawa who we visited at his lovely home once, I would guess he is not alive anymore as he was very frail then? I should have picked his brains about useful plants then! Regards, Yvette van Wijk

I have just read through the papers you all suggested that are able to be downloaded right now - the paper on plants used for Diabetes treatment is just what I was looking for - all are very interesting. Many thanks, I have requested full text of some which I look forward tog getting soon.. I am really so grateful to you all! Regards, Yvette

Thanks Yvette for your kind words, and great interest on Sri Lanka. Bevis Bawa unfortunately is no more, but his architectural wonders will keep him remembered for a long while...

By the way I'm also a big fan of SA, and did my PhD at the Univ of KZN in Durban, with a renowned biogeographer Prof Serban Proches. Would love to visit SA or even to work there in future and in case if I'm back I'd try to track you down. In the meantime if I come across any ethnobotanical stuff, you'll get them...

Best regards, Sandun

You may contact biodiversity secretariat of Sri Lanka. They have started huge project on agrobiodiversity of Sri lanka and they had some symposium too. Contact them

sena

Would love to meet you Sandum, if you do get here please send me a message and I will tell you where to come, unfortunately a very long way from KZN, We live in a very small seaside village on the Cape Garden Route. Thank you Sena as well, I will contact them. Regards, Yvette