Endangered edible orchids and vulnerable gatherers in the context of HIV/AIDS in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania

Table 7 Cognitive Salience Index and gatherer's abundance assessments

		Knower's	Decreasing	Same	Increasing
Specie name	CSI	N	Percent^a	Percent^a	Percent^a
Disa robusta N.E. Br.	0.51	74	79.7	20.3	0
Satyrium atherstonei Rchb. f.	0.37	106	83.0	14.2	2.8
Habenaria xanthochlora Schltr.	0.28	89	78.7	20.2	1.1
Satyrium buchananii Schltr.	0.25	119	37.8	39.5	22.7
Disa erubescens Rendle	0.24	57	96.0	3.5	0
Eulophia schweinfurthii Kraenzl	0.0045	1	100	0	0
Roeperocharis wentzeliana Kraenzl	0.0045	1	100	0	0

^a, percent of knowers assessing abundance status, decreasing, same or increasing

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