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Table 3 The botanical taxa with more use-reports

From: The use of medicinal plants by the population from the Protected Landscape of “Serra de Montejunto”, Portugal

Taxa

URa

FCb

Number of different subcategories

CIc

Illness categories (in decreasing order)

Lavatera cretica L.

168

73

14

2.15

Urinary, dermatological, reproductive, digestive, and respiratory

Malva hispanica L.

168

73

14

2.15

Urinary, dermatological, reproductive, digestive, and respiratory

Malva sylvestris L.

168

73

14

2.15

Urinary, dermatological, reproductive, digestive, and respiratory

Melissa officinalis L.

101

71

8

1.29

Digestive, neurological, and urinary

Citrus limon (L.) Osbeck

100

75

11

1.28

Respiratory, digestive, circulatory, other, and neurological

Zea mays L.

78

64

8

1.00

Urinary, reproductive, circulatory, skeleton, and muscles

Eucalyptus globulus Labill.

77

66

6

0.99

Respiratory and dermatological

Hypericum perforatum L.

76

58

8

0.97

Digestive, urinary, and circulatory

Aloysia citrodora Paláu

75

61

4

0.96

Neurological and digestive

Daucus carota subsp. sativus (Hoffm.) Schübl. & G.Martens

72

71

3

0.92

Respiratory and digestive

Tilia cordata Mill.

69

64

4

0.88

Neurological, circulatory, and digestive

Equisetum arvense L.

64

40

15

0.82

Urinary, reproductive, circulatory, digestive, skeleton, and muscles

Equisetum telmateia Ehrh.

64

40

15

0.82

Urinary, reproductive, circulatory, digestive, skeleton, and muscles

Parietaria judaica L.

61

34

9

0.78

Urinary, reproductive, dermatological, and digestive

Geranium purpureum Vill.

58

39

10

0.74

Digestive, urinary, circulatory, and other

  1. aThe number of use-reports
  2. bThe number of informants that referred the taxon
  3. cCI=UR/N