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Can the Apparency Hypothesis explain the selection of medicinal plants in an area of caatinga vegetation? A chemical perspective

Published:2009-09 Issue:3 Volume:23 Page:911-911
ISSN:0102-3306
Container-title:Acta Botanica Brasilica
language:
Short-container-title:Acta Bot. Bras.

Author:

Alencar Nélson Leal¹,Araújo Thiago Antonio de Sousa¹,Amorim Elba Lúcia Cavalcanti de²,Albuquerque Ulysses Paulino de¹

Affiliation:

1. Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil

2. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Abstract

This scientific note examines the ability of the apparency hypothesis to explain the selection of medicinal plants by members of a rural community located in the Caatinga dryland region of Pernambuco state. A total of 61 plants considered to be medicinal were examined phytochemically to test the premises of this hypothesis. It was concluded that apparency does not completely explain our findings.

Publisher

FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

Subject

Plant Science

Link

http://www.scielo.br/pdf/abb/v23n3/v23n3a33.pdf

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