Short-term temporal analysis and children's knowledge of the composition of important medicinal plants: the structural core hypothesis

Sousa, Daniel Carvalho Pires; Ferreira Júnior, Washington Soares; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino

doi:10.1186/s13002-022-00548-2

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Table 2 Structure of knowledge about important medicinal plants of the 25 adults and 18 children living in the community of Muquém in Vale do Catimbau (NE Brazil), characterized by structural core and satellite plants after calculating the “salient threshold.” This information was taken in the same space/time context in 2019

From: Short-term temporal analysis and children's knowledge of the composition of important medicinal plants: the structural core hypothesis

Structure of adult knowledge				Structure of knowledge of children and adolescents
Order	Popular name	Salience	p value	Order	Popular name	Salience	p value
Structural core [n = 9]				Structural core [n = 2]
1	ameixa	0.7822	0.0000	1	ameixa	0.2698	0.0023
2	quixaba	0.5127	0.0000	2	capim santo	0.1817	0.0497
3	aroeira	0.3877	0.0000	Satellite plants [n = 20]
4	jatobá	0.3794	0.0000	3	erva cidreira	0.1786	0.0542
5	bom nome	0.3342	0.0001	4	jatobá	0.1556	0.1005
6	algaroba	0.2851	0.0020	5	umburana	0.1095	0.2960
7	sassafrás	0.2731	0.0035	6	mastruz	0.0952	0.4211
8	juá	0.2452	0.0112	7	algaroba	0.0873	0.5467
9	bássimo	0.2399	0.0136	8	caju roxo	0.0833	0.5159
Satellite plants [n = 44]				9	goiaba	0.0635	0.3864
10	angico	0.1933	0.0708	10	limão	0.0556	0.3197
11	umburana de cheiro	0.1739	0.1233	11	quixaba	0.0540	0.3040
12	quebra faca do sertão	0.1724	0.1282	12	beladona	0.0476	0.1843
13	caju roxo	0.1717	0.1305	13	juá	0.0476	0.1843
14	umburana de cambão	0.1634	0.1643	14	mandacaru	0.0476	0.1843
15	baraúna	0.1354	0.3125	15	pinhão	0.0476	0.1843
16	erva cidreira	0.1102	0.5087	16	umbu	0.0357	0.1309
17	pau d’arco roxo	0.1029	0.4531	17	boldo	0.0317	0.1001
18	pinhão brabo	0.1013	0.4412	18	sassafrás	0.0286	0.0990
19	mororó	0.0853	0.3180	19	jenipapo	0.0190	0.0417
20	mastruz	0.0818	0.2932	20	aroeira	0.0095	0.0024
21	babosa	0.0796	0.2767	21	romã	0.0095	0.0024
22	piranha	0.0779	0.2650	22	laranja	0.0079	0.0000
23	papaconha	0.0760	0.2527
24	capim santo	0.0717	0.2248
25	mandacaru	0.0569	0.1361
26	umbuzeiro	0.0508	0.1059
27	alecrim	0.0465	0.0880
28	catingueira	0.0460	0.0858
29	rabo de raposa	0.0458	0.0850
30	goiaba	0.0400	0.0638
31	jucá	0.0375	0.0536
32	jurubeba	0.0336	0.0413
33	eucalipto	0.0320	0.0373
34	velame	0.0320	0.0373
35	chumbinho de areia	0.0300	0.0334
36	canzenzo	0.0280	0.0285
37	feijão brabo	0.0262	0.0250
38	maracujá do mato	0.0243	0.0215
39	arruda	0.0231	0.0197
40	manjirioba	0.0200	0.0151
41	biratanha	0.0176	0.0112
42	canelinha	0.0169	0.0100
43	pau ferro	0.0165	0.0098
44	andu	0.0160	0.0094
45	cabeça de nego	0.0154	0.0088
46	jurema preta	0.0122	0.0052
47	jiquiri	0.0080	0.0030
48	marcela	0.0067	0.0020
49	abacate	0.0064	0.0018
50	araçá	0.0060	0.0015
51	sucupira	0.0040	0.0006
52	romã	0.0033	0.0004
53	amargoso	0.0020	0.0003

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