Table 1.

AgNPs synthesis in different plants, their parts used and the morphological characteristics of biosynthesized AgNPs.

Plants	Part	Shape	Size	Reference
Mentha pulegium	Leaves	Anisotropic	5–50 nm	(Abd Kelkawi et al., 2016)
Styrax benzoin	Plant extract	Spherical	12–38 nm	(Du et al., 2016)
Acorus Calamus	Rhizome	Spherical	59 nm	(Nayak et al., 2015)
Ficus religiosa	Leaves	Spherical	21 nm	(Nakkala et al., 2017)
Iresine herbstii	Leaves	Cubic	44–64 nm	(Dipankar and Murugan, 2012)
Prunus persica	Plant extract	Spherical	40–98 nm	(Kumar et al., 2017)
Aloe vera	Leaves	Spherical	15.2 nm	(Chandran et al., 2006)
Carica papaya	Fruit	Cubic	15 nm	(Jain et al., 2009)
Memecylon edula	Leaves	Triangular	50–90 nm	(Elavazhagan and Arunachalam, 2011)
Handelia trichophylla	Plant extract	Spherical	20–50 nm	(Yazdi et al., 2019)
Anacardium occidentale	Leaves	Spherical	40–60 nm	(Balavigneswaran et al., 2014)
Synsepalum Dulcificum	Seed/leaves	Spherical	4–26 nm	(Lateef et al., 2016)
Alphonsea sclerocarpa	Plant extract	Irregular	33 nm	(Doddapaneni et al., 2018)
Solanum lycopersicum	Plant extract	Cubic	21.11 nm	(Baran and Hilal, 2019)
Salvia officinalis	Leaves	Spherical	41 nm	(Okaiyeto et al., 2020)