The Ethnobotany Desk Reference contains almost 30,000 concise ethnobotanical monographs of plant species, characteristics, and an inventory of claimed attributes and historical uses by cultures throughout the world. It is the most ambitious attempt to date to inventory plants on a global scale and match botanical information with historical and current uses.

To obtain the same information about any species listed, you would have to thumb through hundreds of herbal guides, ethnobotanical manuals, and regional field guides.

Sources for this index include the three largest U.S. Government ethnobotany databases, the U.S. National Park Service NPFlora plant inventory lists, and 18 leading works on the subject.

The arrangement of this material will be of interest to those all over the world who study plants and their uses.

Features

• Presents information from diverse fields, including botany, ethnobotany, entheobotany, and Asian and traditional medicine

• Addresses the global uses of all plant families

• Organizes monograph information in 12 categories, including plant family, indigenous use, and body parts treated by plant

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