An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants usedin Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe, EcuadorThis paper reports the results of an ethnobotanical survey on the uses of medicinal plants by inhabitants of two southern Ecuadorian provinces,namely, Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe. In this region, two surviving ethnic groups, the Saraguros and the Shuars, and the descendants of a nowextinct culture, the Paltas, have been identified. The present study reports a total of 275 plant species, having 68 different therapeutical uses.?
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