Ethnobotany has evolved from a discipline that largely documented the diversity of plant use
by local people to one focused on understanding how and why people select plants for a …

Ethnobiology as a discipline has evolved increasingly to embrace theory‐inspired and
hypothesis‐driven approaches to study why and how local people choose plants and …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Plants are a dominant source of pharmacological drugs for
the treatment and cure of different disorders and diseases. However, selecting the most …

Here, we propose a new term,'ethnobotanical convergence', to refer to the similar uses for
plants included in the same node of a phylogeny. This phylogenetic approach, together with …

The current decrease of new drugs brought to the market has fostered renewed interest in
plant-based drug discovery. Given the alarming rate of biodiversity loss, systematic …

Globally, a majority of people use plants as a primary source of healthcare and introduced
plants are increasingly discussed as medicine. Protecting this resource for human health …

Plants are important resources in healthcare and for producing pharmaceutical drugs.
Pharmacological and phytochemical characterization contributes to both the safe use of …

Plants have been a source of medicines in human cultures for millennia. The past decade
has seen a decline in plant-derived medicines due to the time-consuming nature of …

Human life depends on plant biodiversity and the ways in which plants are used are
culturally determined. Whilst anthropologists have used phylogenetic comparative methods …

The non-random selection of medicinal plants theory, which predicts taxonomical biases in
ethnopharmacopeias, indirectly demonstrates that traditional medicinal systems are rational …