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Ethnobryology in e-commerce: traditional uses and emerging applications of bryophytes in China’s online market [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background China is rich in bryophyte diversity, many of which have wide-ranging applications, such as ornamental and medicinal uses. With the rise of online trading platforms, the e-commerce trade of bryophytes has become increasingly prevalent.
Tianyun Qi, Jinjiong Zhuang, Xin Su, Xiang Zhang, Kai Zhang, Donghai Li, Jiewei Hao   +6 more
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Green Christmas: bryophytes as ornamentals in Croatian traditional nativity scenes [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Background The bryophytes are a plant group that is smaller than and not as well known as the vascular plants. They are less used and are almost completely neglected in ethnobotanical studies. Traditional nativity scenes depicting the birth of Christ are
Marija Bučar, Vedran Šegota, Anja Rimac, Nikola Koletić, Tihana Marić, Antun Alegro   +5 more
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Bryophytes Used in Folk Medicine: An Ethnobotanical Overview

Horticulturae, 2023
Bryophytes are considered the oldest living plants of terrestrial habitats and the closest modern relatives of the ancestors of the earliest terrestrial plants.
Riccardo Motti, Anna Di Palma, Bruna de Falco   +2 more
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Uses and traditional knowledge of Dendropogonella rufescens (Bryophyta: Cryphaeaceae) in a Zapotec community of southeastern Mexico

Botan‪ical Sciences, 2021
Background: Uses and traditional knowledge (TK) are essential for the protection and management of natural resources. There are extensive records of traditional uses involving mainly vascular plants, while for mosses are scarce. This study documents the
Enrique Hernandez-Rodríguez, Jesús López-Santiago   +1 more
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The ethnobotany of bryophytes in Mexico

Botan‪ical Sciences, 2020
Background: Mexico has an extensive record of vascular plants that are used by humans and associated with traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). However, for non-vascular plants like bryophytes, there is no consensus on how many and which species have ...
Enrique Hernandez-Rodríguez, Claudio Delgadillo-Moya   +1 more
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Bibenzyls and bisbybenzyls of bryophytic origin as promising source of novel therapeutics: pharmacology, synthesis and structure-activity. [PDF]

Daru, 2020
Nandy S, Dey A.
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Ethnobryological notes from Western Ghats, India

The Bryologist, 2009
Abstract Ethnobryological notes on the liverwort Targionia hypophylla to cure scabies, itches and other skin diseases by the Irula tribes and the leafy liverwort Frullania ericoides for head lice (Pediculus humanus) and nourishment of hair by the Mudugar tribes of Attappady, Western Ghats, Kerala are reported for the first time along with a note on the
M. Remesh, C. N(=Manju C. Nair) Manju
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Ethnobryology: traditional uses and folk classification of bryophytes

The Bryologist, 2008
Abstract The term “ethnobryology” was introduced about 50 years ago in a paper about the bryophytes used by the Gosiute people of Utah (Flowers 1957). Although there are fewer literature reports about human uses of bryophytes than those about vascular plants, a number of references about ethnobotanically important bryophytes do exist.
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Ethnobryology of the Gosuite Indians of Utah

The Bryologist, 1957
Europe, and only a few specimens from Australia, Canada and Colombia, but it is possible that many unsuspected synonyms are now applied to specimens collected in those areas. In order to understand the differentiation of this species, it is helpful to consider the relationship between water balance and habitats. B.
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