Comprehensive dataset of the medicinal plants used by a Tashelhit speaking community in the High Atlas, Morocco

Teixidor-Toneu, I., Martin, G. J., Ouhammou, A., Puri, R. K. and Hawkins, J. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9048-8016 (2016) Comprehensive dataset of the medicinal plants used by a Tashelhit speaking community in the High Atlas, Morocco. Data In Brief, 8. pp. 516-519. ISSN 2352-3409 doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.05.079

Abstract/Summary

This dataset describes medicinal plants used in a poorly studied area of Morocco: the High Atlas mountains, inhabited by Ishelhin people, the southern Moroccan Amazigh (Berber) ethnicgroup, “An ethnomedicinal survey of a Tashelhit-speaking community in the High Atlas, Morocco” (Teixidor-Toneuetal.,2016). It includes a comprehensive list of the plants used in the commune, as well as details on the plant voucher specimens collected and a glossary of Tashelhit terminology relevant to the study. To collect the data, semi-structured and structured interviews were carried out, as well as focus group discussions. Free prior informed consent was obtained for all interactions. A hundred and six adults were interviewed and 2084 use reports were collected; a hundred fifty-one vernacular names corresponding to 159 botanical species were found.

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Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Publisher	Elsevier
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