Table 4 Preference ranking values of nine selected medicinal plants by key informants based on degree of scarcity
List of medicinal plants | Key informants (coded A to J) with the ranks they gave | Total score | Rank | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | Â | Â |
Asparagus recemosus | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 41 | 5 |
Buddleja polystachya | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 39 | 7 |
Dicliptera laxata | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 9 |
Gnidia glauca | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 37 | 8 |
Indigofera emarginella | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 47 | 4 |
Pittosporum viridiflorum | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 54 | 2 |
Plectranthus lanuginosus | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 40 | 6 |
Tetradenia riparia | 2 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 49 | 3 |
Vepris dainellii | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 60 | 1 |