Gabon medicinal plants

Pulchérie Engone Obiang; Raymonde Mboma; Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang; Martial-T Mba Nzue

doi:10.15468/j6vfuw

Gabon medicinal plants

Citation

Engone Obiang P, Mboma R, Engone Obiang N L, Mba Nzue M, Bissiengou R (2023). Gabon medicinal plants. Version 1.3. Herbier National du Gabon. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/j6vfuw accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

This checklist is the medicinal plants from Gabon. It is an output of the BID-AF2020-194-USE project. Data on medicinal plants are important to best support decision-makers and users. The key policy questions and data challenges that the project is addressing to increase the uptake of primary biodiversity data into decision making processes is focused on the following question: What species are used as medicinal plants in Gabon? To answer this question, a list of medicinal plants has been compiled from the book “Les plantes utiles du Gabon” (Raponda Walker & Roger Sillans 1965). A taxonomic update of the scientific names taken from this book has been treated. Therefore, this list includes the correct scientific names, vernacular names and uses that can be medicinal, cosmetic and mystico-magic.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

GABON

Sampling

List of medicinal plants from the book "Plantes Utiles du Gabon".

Quality Control

The species matching tool from GBIF was used for scientific name checking.

Method steps

All information was compiled from the book "Plantes Utiles du Gabon"

Taxonomic Coverages

These data represent 114 families of medicinal plants.

ACANTHACEAE
rank: family
AGAVACEAE
rank: family
AMARANTACEAE
rank: family
AMARYLLIDACEAE
rank: family
ANACARDIACEAE
rank: family
ANNONACEAE
rank: family
APOCYNACEAE
rank: family
ARACEAE
rank: family
ASCLEPIADACEAE
rank: family
BALANOPHORACEAE
rank: family
BALSAMINACEAE
rank: family
BEGONIACEAE
rank: family
BIGNONIACEAE
rank: family
BIXACEAE
rank: family
BOMBACACEAE
rank: family
BORAGINACEAE
rank: family
BROMELIACEAE
rank: family
BURSERACEAE
rank: family
CANNABINACEAE
rank: family
CANNACEAE
rank: family
CAPPARIDACEAE
rank: family
CAPRIFOLIACEAE
rank: family
CARICACEAE
rank: family
CARYOPHYLLACEAE
rank: family
CASUARINACEAE
rank: family
COMMELINACEAE
rank: family
ASTERACEAE
rank: family
CONVOLVULACEAE
rank: family
CRASSULACEAE
rank: family
CRUCIFERACEAE
rank: family
CUCURBITACEAE
rank: family
CYCADACEAE
rank: family
CYPERACEAE
rank: family
DICHAPETALACEAE
rank: family
DILLENIACEAE
rank: family
DIOSCOREACEAE
rank: family
ERYTHROXYLACEAE
rank: family
EUPHORBIACEAE
rank: family
FICOIDACEAE
rank: family
FLACOURTIACEAE
rank: family
FLAGELLARIACEAE
rank: family
GNETACEAE
rank: family
GRAMINEAE
rank: family
GUTTIFERACEAE
rank: family
HALORRHAGACEAE
rank: family
HUMIRIACEAE
rank: family
HYPERICACEAE
rank: family
ICACINACEAE
rank: family
IRIDACEAE
rank: family
LAURACEAE
rank: family
LECYTHIDACEAE
rank: family
LILIACEAE
rank: family
LINACEAE
rank: family
LOGANIACEAE
rank: family
LORANTHACEAE
rank: family
MALVACEAE
rank: family
MELIACEAE
rank: family
MENISPERMACEAE
rank: family
MUSACEAE
rank: family
MYRISTICACEAE
rank: family
MYRTACEAE
rank: family
NYCTAGINACEAE
rank: family
NYMPHÉACEAE
rank: family
OLACACEAE
rank: family
OLÉACEAE
rank: family
ORCHIDACEAE
rank: family
OXALIDACEAE
rank: family
PALMACEAE
rank: family
PANDACEAE
rank: family
PANDANACEAE
rank: family
PASSIFLORACEAE
rank: family
PEDALIACEAE
rank: family
PIPERACEAE
rank: family
PLOMBAGINACEAE
rank: family
PODOSTEMONACEAE
rank: family
POLYGONACEAE
rank: family
RHAMNACEAE
rank: family
ROSACEAE
rank: family
SAPINDACEAE
rank: family
SAPINDACEAE
rank: family
SAPOTACEAE
rank: family
SCYTOPÉTALACEAE
rank: family
SMILACACEAE
rank: family
STERCULIACEAE
rank: family
TILIACEAE
rank: family
TYPHACEAE
rank: family
URTICACEAE
rank: family
VIOLACEAE
rank: family
ZINGIBERACEAE
rank: family

Geographic Coverages

This data come from Gabon

Bibliographic Citations

Raponda-Walker, A., & Sillans, R. (1961). Les plantes utiles du Gabon. -

Contacts

Pulchérie Engone Obiang
originator
position: Researcher
Herbier National du Gabon
Arboratum de Sibang BP 1156
Libreville
BP 1156 Libreville
Estuaire
GA
Telephone: +24162461946
email: engoneobiangnestor@gmail.com

Raymonde Mboma
originator
position: Researcher
IRET/CENAREST
243 Avenue Félix Houphouët Boigny
Libreville
GA
email: mboma_raymonde@yahoo.fr

Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang
originator
position: Researcher
Herbier National du Gabon
Arboratum de Sibang BP 1156
Libreville
GA
Telephone: +24162461946
email: engoneobiangnestor@gmail.com

Martial-T Mba Nzue
originator
position: Technicien supérieur
IPHAMETRA
Arboratum de Sibang BP 1156
Libreville
GA

Raymonde Bissiengou
metadata author
position: Researcher
IPHAMETRA/CENAREST
Arboretum de Sibang
Libreville
BP 1156
Estuaire
GA
Telephone: +241 66 04 21 63
email: bissiengou_p@yahoo.fr

Nestor ENGONE OBIANG
publisher
position: Researcher
IPHAMETRA/CENAREST
Arboretum de Sibang
Libreville
BP 1156
Estuaire
GA
Telephone: +24162461946
email: engoneobiangnestor@gmail.com

Pulchérie Bissiengou
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
IPHAMETRA/CENAREST
Arboretum de Sibang
Libreville
BP 1156 Libreville
Estuaire
GA
Telephone: +241 66 04 21 63
email: bissiengou_p@yahoo.fr

Raymonde Mboma
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
IRET/CENAREST
243 Avenue Félix Houphouët Boigny
Libreville
BP 13354
Estuaire
GA
Telephone: +241 62 04 57 97
email: mboma_raymonde@yahoo.fr

Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
IPHAMETRA/CENAREST
Arboretum de Sibang
Libreville
BP 1156
Estuaire
GA
Telephone: +241 62 46 19 46
email: engoneobiangnestor@gmail.com