An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used in Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador.
This paper reports the results of an ethnobotanical survey on the uses of medicinal plants by inhabitants of two southern Ecuadorian provinces, namely, Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe. In this region, two surviving ethnic groups, the Saraguros and the Shuars, and the descendants of a now extinct culture, the Paltas, have been identified. The present study reports a total of 275 plant species, having 68 different therapeutical uses.
Tene
Vicente
V
Planta de Productos Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador.
Malagón
Omar
O
Finzi
Paola Vita
PV
Vidari
Giovanni
G
Armijos
Chabaco
C
Zaragoza
Tomás
T
D003625:Data Collection; D004484:Ecuador; D019448:Ethnobotany; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008517:Phytotherapy; D010946:Plants, Medicinal