The technique of Nene and Thapliyal [42] was followed to study antifungal activity of leaf extracts. Ten millilitres of cold water, hot water, methanol, petroleum ether, and chloroform leaf extracts (1 g/ml), of various plant species listed in Table 1 were mixed separately with 90 ml of potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium to obtain a 1:10 dilution of each leaf extract. Twenty ml of this mixture were poured into the sterile Petri plates and a 5 mm mycelial disc of the test fungus was placed at the centre of the plate, followed by incubation at room temperature (28G2 8C).