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Synopsis The book has been provided such information along with family, local names of plants, locality and useable plant parts. The plant species marked by asterisks (*) are noted either from herbaria or from data collected during ethnobotanical field studies. Lower cryptogams like algae, fungi, lichen and bryophyta have been avoided due to too much variability in these groups. Moreover the authors are not well conversant with those groups of plants. But many algae, fungi lichens are the source of raw materials of food. So this work can be taken up in future. It was seen that some plant species of Caryota, Cycas, Dioscorea etc., are being harvested for food purpose by various ethnic communities in India. But due to decreasing of forest coverage and growing harvesting rate, the plant species like Dioscorea deltoidea, D. prazeri, Cycas beddomei etc., are rare and threatened in their local habitat. Though there is no static data in weight of wild plants collected in India for edible purpose. In addition, the book may help military people in remote and unaccessible area in crisis period to get edible plants for livelihood. It also may help to the agriculturists, conservationists, plant breeders and foresters for research work purpose. The book covers 1509 plants species arranged alphabetically on their botanical names.