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Table 4 Wood collection by 11 girl participants* with reference to the different plant species

From: Ethnobotanical knowledge acquisition during daily chores: the firewood collection of pastoral Maasai girls in Southern Kenya

No.***

Collected plant species**

Times (frequency-i) of each informant’s (including age) wood collection

Total times (frequency-t)

No. of people

  

Nk (15)

Rl (15)

Mg (14)

Tn (13)

Ln (13)

Chl (12)

Sk (12)

Ml (11)

Lst (9)

Li (9)

Tt (6)

4

Acacia mellifera (Vahl) Benth.

7 (0.88)

2 (0.5)

1 (0.25)

13 (1.08)

8 (0.47)

1 (0.25)

12 (0.63)

13 (0.87)

5 (0.83)

  

62 (0.69)

9

2

Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Delile

4 (0.5)

 

1 (0.25)

6 (0.5)

 

2 (0.5)

5 (0.26)

3 (0.2)

3 (0.5)

  

24 (0.27)

7

8

Acacia senegal (L.) Wild

2 (0.25)

2 (0.5)

1 (0.25)

3 (0.25)

1 (0.06)

2 (0.5)

4 (0.21)

1 (0.07)

4 (0.67)

1 (1)

1 (1)

22 (0.24)

11

24

Acacia senegal (L.) Wild

1 (0.13)

1 (0.3)

     

1 (0.07)

   

3 (0.03)

3

3

Acacia tortilis (Forssk.) Hayne

4 (0.5)

2 (0.5)

2 (0.5)

8 (0.67)

6 (0.35)

4 (1)

5 (0.26)

9 (0.6)

5 (0.83)

1 (1)

 

46 (0.51)

10

19

Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Delile

   

2 (0.17)

1 (0.06)

 

4 (0.21)

1 (0.07)

1 (0.17)

  

9 (0.1)

5

21

Balanites glabra Mildbr. & Schltr.

5 (0.63)

1 (0.3)

1 (0.25)

6 (0.5)

4 (0.24)

 

3 (0.16)

7 (0.47)

2 (0.33)

1 (1)

1 (1)

31 (0.34)

10

6

Bridelia taitensis Vatke & Pax

   

1 (0.08)

1 (0.06)

 

3 (0.16)

 

1 (0.17)

  

6 (0.07)

4

13

Commiphora schimperi (O.Berg) Engl.

       

1 (0.07)

1 (0.17)

  

2 (0.02)

2

17

Cordia monoica Roxb.

   

1 (0.08)

  

1 (0.05)

    

2 (0.02)

2

14

Dalbergia melanoxylon Guill. & Perr.

   

1 (0.08)

3 (0.18)

 

4 (0.21)

2 (0.13)

1 (0.17)

 

1 (1)

12 (0.13)

6

15

Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jacq.

1 (0.13)

  

1 (0.08)

   

2 (0.13)

   

4 (0.04)

3

9

Grewia fallax K.Schum.

2 (0.25)

1 (0.3)

  

1 (0.06)

  

1 (0.07)

1 (0.17)

  

6 (0.07)

5

5

Grewia sp.

  

1 (0.25)

1 (0.08)

2 (0.12)

 

5 (0.26)

 

1 (0.17)

  

10 (0.11)

5

12

Grewia villosa Willd.

      

2 (0.11)

1 (0.07)

2 (0.33)

  

5 (0.06)

3

16

Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata (Wall. & G.Don) Cif.

1 (0.13)

          

1 (0.01)

1

7

Opilia amentacea Roxb.

    

1 (0.06)

1 (0.25)

3 (0.16)

    

5 (0.06)

3

1

Ormocarpum kirkii S.Moore

2 (0.25)

2 (0.5)

4 (1)

3 (0.25)

7 (0.41)

4 (1)

11 (0.58)

6 (0.4)

4 (0.67)

  

43 (0.48)

9

11

Ozoroa insignis Delile

  

1 (0.25)

2 (0.17)

2 (0.12)

 

1 (0.05)

3 (0.2)

1 (0.17)

  

10 (0.11)

6

18

Pappea capensis Eckl. & Zeyh.

      

1 (0.05)

1 (0.07)

   

2 (0.02)

2

10

Rhus natalensis Krauss

    

1 (0.06)

 

5 (0.26)

4 (0.27)

   

10 (0.11)

3

22

Solanum incanum L.

        

1 (0.17)

  

1 (0.01)

1

  1. Frequency-i = Collection times / No. of days each informant participated. The number of days each informant participated can be found in Table 2
  2. Frequency-t = Collection times / 91 trips (i.e. total No. of trips that the 11 girl informants undertook during the 21 days)
  3. *Data of the types of plant species that participant N (11) collected was unable to collected during the survey
  4. **Data concerning girls’ collection frequency of Dombeya kirkii Mast. and Teclea simplicifolia (Engl.) Verd. was not sufficiently recorded, thus I did not include these two species in this table
  5. ***No. refers to the voucher numbers that provided for plant identification
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