Medicinal and aromatic plants of Gilan. 2020. ca. 500 col. photogr. 639 p. Hardcover. - In Farsi, with 4 p. of English introduction and Latin nomenclature.

Gilan is a province in the north of Iran and owns an ancient large and dense forest that is called Hyrcanian, which includes 3 provinces. Gilan is one of them.

Hyrcanian forests form a unique forested massif that stretches 850 km along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. The history of these broad-leaved forests dates back 25 to 50 million years, when they covered most of this Northern Temperate region. These ancient forest areas retreated during the Quaternary glaciations and then expanded again as the climate became milder. Their floristic biodiversity is remarkable: 44% of the vascular plants known in Iran are found in the Hyrcanian region, which only covers 7% of the country.

Covers 580 medicinal and aromatic plant species belonging to 108 families, 111 species of them are aromatic plants without any documented medicinal usage.