Indigenous biosystematics of yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Southwest Ethiopia: folk taxonomy, ethnolinguistic analysis, and folk descriptors

• Autors principals: Tsegaye Babege Worojie (Autor), Bizuayehu Tesfaye Asfaw (Autor), Wendawek Abebe Mengesha (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: BMC, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: article
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Abstract Background In Southwest Ethiopia, various plant species are coexisting in wild and cultivated forms. This provides an ideal setting for studying folk biosystematics of neglected species. One of such species is the Dioscorea species, in which we studied to assess the commonly applied folk wi...