Use and management of traditional medicinal plants by Maale and Ari ethnic communities in southern Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kidane, Berhane ^a,b   van Andel, Tinde ^c   van der Maesen, Laurentius J G ^c   Asfaw, Zemede ^d  

^a ETHIOPIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (Ethiopia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DASYPHYLLUM; INDIGOFERA; INDIGOFERA SPICATA; MEYNA TETRAPHYLLA; OXALIS; OXALIS RADICOSA; PLUMBAGO ZEYLANICA; RUTA CHALEPENSIS; SOLANUM;

AFRICAN MEDICINE; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHYTOTHERAPY;

ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84902545682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-10-46     Document Type: Article

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