Ethiopia: Plant Use In Odo-Bulu And Demaro, Bale Region, Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Plant Use In Odo-Bulu And Demaro, Bale Region, Ethiopia Bussmann Rainer W, Swartzinsky Paul, Worede Aserat, and Evangelista Paul, 2011   This paper reports on the plant use of laypeople of the Oromo in Southern Ethiopia. The Oromo in Bale had names/uses for 294 species in comparison to 230 species documented in the lower reaches of the Bale area. Only 13 species was used for veterinary purposes, or as human medicine (46). Plant medicine served mostly to treat common everyday...

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