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Table 6 Comparison of medicinal plants used by Meccan women (MW) identified at the species level (n = 95) with the inventories from selected literature sources. NA indicates that a source did not provide vernacular names or therapeutic uses

From: Medicinal plants used by women in Mecca: urban, Muslim and gendered knowledge

Reference (rural/urban)

Total number of species listed

New citations by MW

Species with different vernacular names

Species with different therapeutic uses

Abdulafatih 1987 (rural) [59]

61

81 (85%)

84 (88%)

85 (89%)

Al-Sodany et al. 2013 (rural) [41]

165

82 (86%)

NA

NA

El-Ghazali et al. 2010 (rural) [58]

47

87 (92%)

88 (93%)

90 (95%)

Ghazanfar 1994 (not specified) [36]

260

43 (45%)

53 (56%)

55 (58%)

Total literature

486

39 (41%)

48 (51%)

79 (83%)