title: Traditional plant use in the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, Campania, Southern, Italy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper reports an ethobotanical survey of the traditional uses of medicinal and useful plants in an area of the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, Campania, Southern Italy.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study conducted between 2009 and 2011, gathered information on the medicinal plants traditionally used in Southern Italy (Campania Region). In all, we interviewed 70 key informants, whose age ranged between 50 and 85 years. This people belonged to families which had strong links with traditional activities of the area.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The research resulted to the identification of 192 plants belonging to 64 families. Among the species reported, 86 are used in human medicine, 15 in veterinary medicine, 69 as human foods, 18 as animal feed, 61 for domestic and 8 for agricultural uses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A survey of the available literature on Southern Italy ethnobotany reveals that some species have been never reported and about 10% of cited uses are new. Data obtained show that in the studied area the folk use of plants is alive and still derives from daily practice.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche e Biomediche, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo, Fisciano (SA) I-84084, Italy.
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Di Novella
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Di Novella
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: De Martino
authors.forename: Emilia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mancini
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: De Feo
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods; D000821:Animal Feed / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D019448:Ethnobotany / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008519:Medicine, Traditional / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010944:Plants; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000379:methods