ABC_Useful plants of Malawi; medicinal plants used in maternal and child health care

Donald Mpalika1

1 National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi, P.O. Box 528, Zomba, Malawi

Corresponding author(s): Donald Mpalika (dmpalika@yahoo.co.uk)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Mpalika D (2018): ABC_Useful plants of Malawi; medicinal plants used in maternal and child health care. v1.1. National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi. Dataset/Occurrence. http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=abc_mwmedmat_species&v=1.1

Abstract

An ethnobotanical study was conducted in two Traditional Authorities surrounding Malawi's only biosphere reserve, Mulanje Forest Reserves. The study was aimed at finding effective strategies of improving the status of women and children through documentation and conservation status assessment of medicinal plants used in maternal and child health.

Keywords: Occurrence, Malawi, medicinal, maternal, Specimen, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Enhancing accessibility of Biodiversity Data in Malawi
Personnel: Donald Mpalika, Elizabeth Mwafongo
Funding: JRS Biodiversity Foundation.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa. It is wholly within the tropics; from about 9°30S at its northernmost point to about 17°S at the southernmost tip.
Design description: The project is aimed at mobilising biodiversity data and making it accessible. Project partner institutions mobilising data are National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens of Malawi(NHBG), Museums of Malawi(MoM) and Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi (WESM). Publishing is done through IPT hosted by the Malawi National Commission for Science and Technology (NCST).

Data published through GBIF: http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=abc_mwmedmat_species

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The data set contains information on plants which were identified to species or subspecies as well as family levels.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa. It is wholly within the tropics; from about 9°30S at its northernmost point to about 17°S at the southernmost tip.
Coordinates: 17°7'12''S and 9°21'43.2''S Latitude; 32°37'44.4''E and 35°58'8.4''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1927 - 2002

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive ABC_Useful plants of Malawi; medicinal plants used in maternal and child health care
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/archive.do?r=abc_mwmedmat_species
Publication date of data: 2022-05-31
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-09-10
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Maliwichi, C,(2003):Traditional Maternal and under-five health care delivery system using medicinal plants:A case study of Mulanje District, Malawi.