Not just minor wild edible forest products: Consumption of pteridophytes in sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Maroyi, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Edible pteridophytes; Fern and fern allies; Indigenous knowledge; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

CERATOPTERIS THALICTROIDES; DIPLAZIUM; FILICOPHYTA; NEPHROLEPIS BISERRATA; OPHIOGLOSSUM POLYPHYLLUM; OPHIOGLOSSUM RETICULATUM; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM; PTERIDOPHYTA; SCOPUS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CATERING SERVICE; EDIBLE PLANT; FERN; FOREST; HUMAN;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; FOOD SUPPLY; FORESTS; HUMANS; PLANTS, EDIBLE; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 84924229578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-10-78     Document Type: Review

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