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    Use and Management of Traditional Medicinal Plants by Indigenous People in 'Boosat' Wereda, 'Welinciti' Area: An Ethnobotanical Approach
    (Addis Ababa University, 2001-06) Bunde Debela; Asfaw Zemede (PhD); Kelbessa Ensermu (PhD)
    An ethnobotanical study on uses and management of traditional medicinal plants by indigenous people in 'Boosat' Wereda has been conducted in Welinciti area, East Shewa Zone, Oromia Region between July 2000 and March 2001 to make inventory of plants that have ethnomedicinal value and investigate the uses and management practices by local people. Five study sites were systematically established to include areas inhabited by settled fmmers and transhuman pastoralists. Eighty informants were randomly selected from age group 15 to 40 years and above from both males and females. Vegetation was examined and the dominant species of vegetation visually recognized were documented. The eight vegetation types identified were: Acacia albidaZiziphlls spina-christi woodland, Acacia senegal-Acacia tortilis dominated vegetation, the Pistacia falcata, Acacia seyal-Acacia tortilis and Cissus quadrangulaJ1s, BoslVellia papyrijera, Euphorbia nigrispinoides, Acacia senegal thicket vegetation and Acacia tortiUs-Balanites aegyptiaca woodland. Ethnobotanical information of medicinal plants including uses, management and conservation by indigenous people, land, soil and vegetation classification by indigenous people were obtaine