ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDIES FROM CENTRAL NIGERIA

The people of Kwara State, central Nigeria, depend on natural plant resources of their forests for food, medicine, pastoral, domestic, and other cultural and religious needs. This area, one of multi-ethnic status, has remained ethnobotanically unexplored until recently. Our survey among herbalists, herb sellers, tribal priests, and local people recorded medical and other uses of 52 species of plants. This first-hand information points out the importance of plants to tribal groups and modern people of central Nigeria. © 1990 The New York Botanical Garden.