Broadly defined, ethnobotany is the study of plant and human interactions. Barrau (1966)
reviewed previous ideas about ethnobotany, and found that anthropologists who deal with
human culture and plants are mainly concerned with (i) human vision, cognition and
classification of the plant world,(ii) the cultural significance of plants, and (iii) the origin, uses
and economic value of these plants. Barrau concluded that “while ethnobotany is today
increasingly appearing as a discipline in its own right, integrated or at least closely related to …