Botanical Name of Medicinal Plants |
No. of Informants |
Percentage |
Districts |
Syzygiumguineense |
55 |
55.0 |
Kofale |
Acacia Bussei |
53 |
53.0 |
Kofale |
Eucalyptus globulusLabill |
50 |
50.0 |
kofale |
Enseteventricosum(Welw) |
45 |
45.0 |
kofale |
Hageniaabyssinica |
42 |
42.0 |
Dodola |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis |
45 |
40.0 |
Dodola |
Vernoniaamygdalina Dell |
40 |
40.0 |
Dodola |
Oleaeuropia L. |
37 |
37.0 |
Dodola |
Cpsicumannuum L. |
34 |
34.0 |
Dodola |
Vernoniaauriculifera |
31 |
31.0 |
Dodola |
Ziziphusmucronata |
29 |
29.0 |
Dodola |
Dovyalisabyssinica(A.Rich)Warb |
30 |
30.0 |
Dodola |
Schinusmolle L. |
50 |
50 |
wando |
Rutachalepensis L. |
45 |
45 |
Wando |
Aloe macrocarpaTod |
35 |
35.0 |
A/Tulu |
Croton macrostachyus L. |
30 |
30.0 |
A/Tulu |
Justice schimperiana (Hochst. |
25 |
25.0 |
A/Tulu |
Table 1 : Some of the medicinal plants cited most by informants
Plant parts |
Total responses |
% of total |
Leaf |
75 |
51.3 |
Whole parts |
20 |
13.6 |
Bulb |
4 |
2.73 |
Total |
146 |
100 |
|
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Table 2 : Plant parts used for traditional medicine preparations.
No. |
Ways of Applying plant materials |
Total Responses |
Percentage (% ) |
1 |
Cutting the leaves & smear hive stand &hive entrance |
50 |
47.6 |
4 |
Planting around hives |
5 |
4.76 |
5 |
Put on |
3 |
2.85 |
6 |
Smoking |
6 |
5.7 |
7 |
Planting around hives as fence |
4 |
3.8 |
8 |
Cleaning by fresh leaves smear by fresh leaves parts of the hives |
7 |
6.6 |
9 |
Cover hive stands |
8 |
7.6 |
|
Total |
105 |
100 |
Table 3: Ways of applying the plant remedies used to protect honey bee pests and predators.
Disease categories |
Nt |
Nur |
ICF |
Ants |
8 |
98 |
0.92 |
Lizards |
11 |
95 |
0.89 |
Beetles |
2 |
20 |
0.94 |
Spiders |
9 |
90 |
0.91 |
Snakes |
10 |
65 |
0.85 |
Honey badger |
2 |
16 |
0.93 |
Table 4 : Informant Consensus Factor (ICF)
Botanical Name of |
Examples of Pests treated |
Np |
N |
FL |
FL% |
Schinusmolle L. Eucalyptus globulus Croton macrostachyus |
Ants |
46 |
50 |
0.92 |
92 |
Acacia bussei, Hageniaabyssinica,oleaeuropea |
Lizards |
41 |
45 |
0.91 |
91 |
Syzigiumguineense |
Spiders |
40 |
45 |
0.88 |
88 |
Vernoniaamygdalina& Aloe macrocarpa |
Snakes |
35 |
41 |
0.62 |
85 |
Anoonuu&Hageniaabyssinica |
Beetles |
22 |
35 |
0.81 |
81 |
Dovyalisabyssinica |
Honey badger |
20 |
30 |
0.66 |
66 |
Where,Np is the number of informants that claim the use of a plant species to treat a particular pests and predators, and N is the number of informants that use the plants as a medicine to treat any given disease
Table 5 : Fidelity index of some medicinal plants
List of medicinal Plants |
R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
R4 |
R5 |
R6 |
R7 |
R8 |
R9 |
R10 |
Total |
Rank |
Rutachalepensis |
4 |
6 |
5 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
6 |
46 |
1st |
Eucalyptus globulus |
6 |
5 |
4 |
5 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
44 |
2nd |
Croton macrostachyus |
5 |
4 |
6 |
3 |
7 |
2 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
40 |
3rd |
Hageniaabyssinica |
6 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
4 |
6 |
3 |
5 |
1 |
37 |
4th |
Eucalyptus camudelencis |
3 |
3 |
3 |
8 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
31 |
5th |
Syzigiumguineense |
2 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
25 |
6th |
Key: - R= informant
Table 6 : Preference ranking of medicinal plants used for protecting ants
Plant Species
|
Use Categories |
|
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Charcoal Constrction Fencing Fire wood Food Forage Furinuture Medicine
|
Total
Rank |
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Acacia bussei |
|
5 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
2 4 |
2 |
4 |
30 |
1st |
Table 7 : Direct Matrix ranking for the ten Selected Multipurpose Plant Species. Ranking was done based on the use criteria rated as 5 = best; 4 = Very good; 3 = good; 2 = less used; 1 = least used and 0 = no value).
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