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Table 3 Proportion of medicinal plants part used in relation to plants availability type

From: Medicinal plants and traditional healing practices in ehotile people, around the aby lagoon (eastern littoral of Côte d'Ivoire)

Availability type

Proportion (%) of parts used

Leaf

Bark

Root & tuber

Fruit & seed

Exudate

Whole plant

Abundant plants & part used easy to collect

53.6

16.1

19.6

1.8

1.8

7.1

Abundant plants. but part used difficult to harvest or rare

20.0

40.0

13.3

13.3

6.7

6.7

Scarce plants in the region

19.0

61.9

14.3

4.8

0.0

0.0

Endangered plants in the region. rarely found in their natural habitat

0.0

25.0

50.0

25.0

0.0

0.0

Exotic domesticated or cultivated plants

77.8

14.8

7.4

0.0

0.0

0.0