Alternative & Integrative Medicine

Catherine Woodward

Publications

• Research Article
  The Accuracy of Plant Identification in a Longitudinal Ethno Botanical Project in Coastal Ecuador
  Author(s): David S. Kiefer, Lauren Moscoe, Jack Buchanan and Catherine WoodwardDavid S. Kiefer, Lauren Moscoe, Jack Buchanan and Catherine Woodward
  
  Background: Preserving traditional environmental knowledge about herbal medicine in the face of rapid environmental, economic and cultural change depends in part on the identification of traditionally used medicinal plants to their Latin binomial. When financial, legal, and/or time constraints prevent the collection of voucher specimens or the use of advanced molecular technologies, arguably the “gold standards” for plant identification, alternative methods such as photography and morphological descriptions may still be able to assist identification. There are unknowns about the relative accuracies of these different techniques. This paper compares the efficacy of several methods to correctly identify plants across five separate site visits in the province of Manabí, Ecuador. Methods: Plants that were identified to genus-, and species-level accuracy during each of the.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000186

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