Table 3 Commercially important medicinal ethnospecies with more than two informants and 75% or more citations affirmative for commercial value (collection sites expressed as the percentage of citations for that site, and commercial value expressed as the percentage of citations of affirmative commercial value of the plant)
From: The apparency hypothesis applied to a local pharmacopoeia in the Brazilian northeast
Ethnospecies/species | Habit | Collection sites | Part sold | Commercial value | No. of informants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
”Fava d”anta’ tree/Dimorphandra gardneriana Tul. | Tree | 52.7% FLONA, 18.2% nat. veg. outside FLONA, 29.1% anthropogenic area | Fruit | 100% | 29 |
Malva/Waltheria indica L. | Herb | 100% anthropogenic area | Inflorescence | 100% | 2 |
‘Pequi’/Caryocar coriaceum Wittm. | Tree | 76.3% FLONA, 5.3% native vegetation outside FLONA, 18.4% anthropogenic area | *Oil from fruit and seed | 98.28% | 58 |
‘Janaguba’/Himatanthus drasticus (Mart.) Plumel. | Tree | 85.6% FLONA, 11.0% native vegetation outside FLONA, 3.4% anthropogenic area | Latex, stem bark | 88.89% | 99 |
‘Catuaba’/Erythroxylum ampliofolium (Mart.) O.E. Schulz | Shrub | 81.8% FLONA, 12.1% native vegetation outside FLONA, 3.0% anthropogenic area | Stem bark | 80% | 30 |
‘Barbatimão’/Stryphnodendron rotundifolium Mart.. | Tree | 90.7% FLONA, 7.6% native vegetation outside FLONA, 1.7%. anthropogenic area | Stem bark | 75.70% | 107 |
Cassava/Manihot esculenta Crantz | Shrub | 100% anthropogenic area | *Gum | 75% | 4 |
‘Mangaba’/Hancornia speciosa Gomes | Tree | 87.5% FLONA, 9.4% native vegetation outside FLONA, 3.1% anthropogenic area | Latex, stem bark | 75% | 56 |
‘Urucum’/Bixa orellana L. | Shrub | 100% anth anthropogenic area | Seed | 75% | 8 |