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Vernacular dominance in folk taxonomy: a case study of ethnospecies in medicinal plant trade in Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Medicinal plants are traded as products with vernacular names, but these folk taxonomies do not always correspond one-to-one with scientific plant names. These local species entities can be defined as ethnospecies and can match, under-differentiate or over-differentiate as compared to sc...

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Autores principales: Otieno, Joseph, Abihudi, Siri, Veldman, Sarina, Nahashon, Michael, van Andel, Tinde, de Boer, Hugo J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25971902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-11-10