Table 1

Amount of important medicinal plants exported from Nepal (in tons)
Species
 1999
 2000
 2001
 2002
 2003
 2004
 Average
Acorus calamus
 20
 12
 11
 9
 6
 10
 11
Cordyceps sinensis


.0031
 .0045
 .0756
 .0277
Delphinium himalayai
 .5
 2.1
 6.4
 12
 2
 2
 4.3
Morchella conica


.93
 5.1
 1.1
 2.4
Nardostachys grandiflora
 29
 83
 46
 254
 45
 208
 111
Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora
 35
 46
 39
 .2
 .3
 5.2
 21
Valeriana jatamansii
 33
 34
 20
 28
 42
 88
 41
Zanthoxylum armatum
 355
 361
 533
 1006
 650
 365
 545

Source: Department of forest, Ministry of forest and soil conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal

Kunwar et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2006 2:27   doi:10.1186/1746-4269-2-27