Diversity and origin of medicinal exotic flora in Cape Verde Islands.

摘要: some considerations for the geographic origin of these species. Methods - This study is mostly based on collection ethnobotanical data obtained in specimens housed LISC Herbarium and available botanical historical bibliographic data. Key results A checklist exotic medicinal plants Cape Verde presented. The use local flora folk medicine common, 101 naturalized taxa were reported as this archipelago. Most arise from Afrotropical, Neotropical, Palaearctic, or Pantropical regions. Furthermore nineteen non-naturalized taxa, mainly Neotropical Oriental regions, medicinal. Conclusions shows relevance factors determining composition Verde, namely importance that slave trade routes Africa to Americas played during period 16th-! 9th centuries. It also allows recognition positive valuation cultural biological Verde's patrimony its sustainable use.