Table 11 Comparative analysis of the uses of medicinal plant species recorded in this study with other similar studies undertaken in different places

1.

Loma and Gena bosa Districts, southern Ethiopia [68]

16

2.

Seharti Samre District, Southern Tigray, Ethiopia [38]

25

3.

Guji Oromo Tribes in Abaya District, Borana, Oromia, Ethiopia [10]

8

4.

Harla and Dengego valleys, eastern Ethiopia [79]

2

5.

Erer Valley of Babile Wereda, Eastern Ethiopia [32]

1

6.

Gondar Zuria District, Northwestern Ethiopia [37]

12

7.

Libo Kemkem District, Northwest Ethiopia [63]

34

8.

In and around Fiche District, Central Ethiopia [50]

11

9.

Debre Libanos Wereda, Central Ethiopia [78]

9

10.

Bench ethnic group of Ethiopia [61]

1

11.

Ada’a District, East Shewa Zone of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia [46]

16

12.

Maale and Ari ethnic communities in southern Ethiopia [29]

15

13.

Mana Angetu District, Southeastern Ethiopia [40]

4

14.

Ankober District, North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia [65]

8

15.

Wayu Tuka District, Oromia Regional State, West Ethiopia [47]

8

16.

Wonago Woreda, SNNPR, Ethiopia [42]

9

17.

Amaro Woreda, Ethiopia [45]

13

18.

Hawassa city, Southern Ethiopia [70]

7

19

Kilte Awulaelo District, Tigray Region of Ethiopia [73]

10

20.

Zegie Peninsula, Northwestern Ethiopia [59]

12

21.

Ethiopia [75]

2

22.

Sekoru Woreda, Jimma Zone, Southwestern Ethiopia [76]

3

23.

Asgede Tsimbila district, Northwestern Tigray, northern Ethiopia [77]

8

24.

Gindeberet District,Western Ethiopia [55]

6

25.

South africa [62]

2

26.

Abeokuta areas of Ogun State, Nigeria [36]

27.

Igede people of Nigeria [1]

–

28.

Ogun state of Nigeria [60]

–

29.

Gomari Airport Ward, Jere local government area, Borno State, Nigeria [30]

–

30.

Southwestern Nigeria [72]

1

31.

Nakapiripirit, Pallisa, Kanungu, and Mukono in Uganda [64]

–

32.

Uganda [53]

–

33.

Maasai of Southern Kaijiado District, Kenya [2]

1

34.

Kikuyu, Central Kenya [3]

–

35.

Sabaots of mt.elgon Kenya [48]

3

36.

Eastern Desert of Egyp Wadi El-Gemal National Park [51]

–

37.

Beregadougou and Fabedougou, Cascades Region, Burkina Faso [33]

–

38.

Bhopal district, India [49]

–

39.

Coochbehar district, West Bengal, India [9]

–

40.

Keelakodankulam village, South India [67]

3

41.

Irula Tribe of Hasanur Hills, Erode District, India [71]

–

42.

Nandi, Kenya [57]

2

43.

Conakry and Dubreka, Guinean [34]

–

44.

Kadipur village of Chuadanga District, Bangladesh [58]

1

45.

Sylhet Division, Bangladesh [69]

3

46.

Province of Camagüey, Cuba [74]

–

47.

Izmir Province, Turkey [56]

–

48.

District Mirpur, AJK, Pakistan [66]

2

49.

Tabarkins, Northern Italy [80]

1

50.

Itapoa, Southern Brazil [35]

3

51.

Dek Island in Ethiopia [81]

15

52.

Zay people in Ethiopia [82]

7

53.

Dheeraa town, Arsi Zone, Ethiopia [83]

13

54.

Around Alamata, Southern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia [84]

9

55.

Mecha Wereda West Gojjam Zone of Ethiopia [31]

16