Folk taxonomy and traditional uses of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) landraces by the sociolinguistic groups in the central region of the Republic of Benin

Table 6 Quantitative measurements of knowledge about common bean uses in function of sociolinguistic groups of the study area and use diversity value (UD) and equitability value (UE) according to various uses of common bean

Sociolinguistic groups	ID	IE	Common bean use categories
			Medicinal		Commercial		Mystical-religious		Fodder
			UD	UE	UD	UE	UD	UE	UD	UE
Fon	0.37 a	0.47 a	0.07	0.28	0.22	0.44	0.02	0.34	–	–
Idaasha	0.38 a	0.47 a	0.02	0.07	0.27	0.54	0.01	0.14	–	–
Mahi	0.31 a	0.38 a	0.00	0.03	0.15	0.31	0.01	0.19	0.03	0.06
Nago	0.40 a	0.50 a	0.02	0.09	0.18	0.36	0.01	0.17	0.25	0.50
Ifé	0.53 b	0.65 b	0.04	0.17	0.43	0.87	0.04	0.52	–	–
Tchabé	0.43 a	0.54 a	0.03	0.11	0.25	0.50	0.02	0.34	–	–
Adja	0.50 a	0.63 ab	0.11	0.42	–	–	0.02	0.26	0.14	0.27

ID interviewee diversity value, IE interviewee equitability value; means within the same rows followed by the same letter are not significantly different (p < 0.05)

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