Abstract: Medicinal plants have been used in traditional health care systems since prehistoric time and are still the most important health care for majority population around the world. This study surveyed and documented plants with ethnobotany values in FUTA Wildlife Park. Four transect was laid within the Park and six temporary sample plots of 30 m X 30 m were marked out using simple random sampling and detailed information of plants were recorded. Results show that a total of 412 individual medicinal plants were encountered, these were distributed into 40 species within 19 families. Manihot esculenta (50), Ficus thonningii (41), Alchornea cordifolia (40) were the plants with highest frequencies while Bambusa vulgaris, Chrysophyllum albidum, and Gliricidia sepium were the plants with least frequencies of 1 respectively. The different forms of taxonomic description of plants encountered ranges from tree (29), shrub (7), herbs (3) and Sucker (1). Some of the uses of these plants are; fever, gonorrhea, dysentery and skin rashes. These medicinal plants play very important roles in the life of the rural dwellers as well as the people that are closer to nature. Therefore, there is the need that proper attention is given for their conservation.
Keywords: Ethnobotany, Medicinal, Plants and Wildlife Park.
Title: Survey and Documentation of Medicinal Plants in Wildlife Park of Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria,
Author: Olusola, J. A., Oyeleke, O. O
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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