Use And Management Of Traditional Medicinal Plants By Indigenous People In Boosat Wereda Welinciti Area An Ethnobotanical Approach

An ethnobotanical study on uses and management of traditional medicinal plants by indigenousrnpeople in 'Boosat' Wereda has been conducted in Welinciti area, East Shewa Zone, OromiarnRegion between July 2000 and March 2001 to make inventory of plants that have ethnomedicinalrnvalue and investigate the uses and management practices by local people. Five study sites werernsystematically established to include areas inhabited by settled fmmers and transhumanrnpastoralists. Eighty informants were randomly selected from age group 15 to 40 years and abovernfrom both males and females. Vegetation was examined and the dominant species of vegetationrnvisually recognized were documented. The eight vegetation types identified were: Acacia albidaZiziphllsrnspina-christi woodland, Acacia senegal-Acacia tortilis dominated vegetation, thernPistacia falcata, Acacia seyal-Acacia tortilis and Cissus quadrangulaJ1s, BoslVellia papyrijera,rnEuphorbia nigrispinoides, Acacia senegal thicket vegetation and Acacia tortiUs-Balanitesrnaegyptiaca woodland.rnEthnobotanical information of medicinal plants including uses, management and conservation byrnindigenous people, land, soil and vegetation classification by indigenous people were obtaine

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