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One hundred and seventy-four medicinal plant species were documented.
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Patience Tugume; Jamilu E. Ssenku; Savina Asiimwe; et al. BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2026. doi:10.1186/s12906-025-05235-9
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- Observation The medicinal plants belong to 63 families.
- Observation The medicinal plants belong to 160 genera.
- Observation Medicinal plants were mostly obtained from bushlands (92.0%).
- Observation Medicinal plants were obtained from markets (82.3%).
- Observation Medicinal plants were obtained from wetlands (74.7%).
- Observation Fabaceae was the most represented family among the medicinal plants (13.7%).
- Observation Asteraceae represented 8.6% of the medicinal plants.
- Observation Euphorbiaceae represented 5.7% of the medicinal plants.
- Observation Leaves were the most commonly used plant part (45.7%).
- Observation The plants were cited for treating infectious diseases such as malaria.
- Observation Diabetes was cited as a non-infectious chronic ailment treated with the plants (24.0%).
- Observation Cancer was cited as a non-infectious chronic ailment treated with the plants (9.7%).
- Observation Kigelia africana was the most cited species, with a Relative Frequency of Citation of 0.22.
- Observation Almost all respondents (96.3%) acknowledged a considerable decline in the availability of medicinal plants.
- Observation The decline in availability was attributed more to climate change (95.5%) than to other factors.
- Observation Four of the documented medicinal plants were found to be Red listed.
- Observation Conservation strategies for the medicinal plants were scarce.