Table 2.

Useful plants of Nepal Himalaya

Ecological zones {m}	Distribution of medicinal plants {%}			Average {%}	% of ethnobotanically important plants			Average {%}	% of ethnomedicinally important plants			Average {%}
	W	C	E		W	C	E		W	C	E
60–1000	32.06	44.28	42.85	39.73 49.20 [36]	40.72 (3)	-	68.20 (1)	54.46	56.76 (8)	38.55 (7)	51.57 (6)	48.96
1000–2000	40.0	50.95	47.46	46.13 53.96[36]	70.78 (1)	65.29 (4)	-	68.03	70.33 (2)	43.57 (17)	48.71 (2)	54.20
2000–3000	29.68	33.49	30.0	31.05 35.70[36]	38.38 (1)	45.46 (1)	59.25 (1)	47.69	76.24 (6)	60.98 (5)	48.51 (3)	61.91
3000–4000	16.03	17.30	15.07	16.13 18.09[36]	-	-	-	-	60.42 (6)	71.56 (1)	18.46 (2)	50.14
Average	29.44	36.50	33.92	39.23	49.96	55.37	63.72	56.72	65.93	53.66	41.81	53.80

The figure in parenthesis represents the number of sample publications reviewed