Ethnobotanical knowledge of the province of Huíla (Angola): a contribution based on the field records of the collector José Maria Daniel
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Keywords
Herbarium do Lubango, José Maria Daniel, medicinal plants, Huíla providence
Abstract
The present study aims to disclose the life and work of the collector José Maria Daniel, regarding the ethnobotanical knowledge of Huíla Province. Excerpts of his life and professional career are part of his auto-biography, while the information on the use of plants are in notebooks and field notes of JMD found in the archives of the Herbarium of Lubango. This information was organized and introduced in an Excel spreadsheet, constituting a total of 787 records of several plants, corresponding to 158 species, from which 57 are used medicinally, while the remaining were referred as ornamental, forage, toxic or poisonous, food and condiments. These information were organized according to family, genus and species to which the plants belong, following by the uses attributed to them and form of utilization, constituting a significant contribution to the dissemination of the floristic knowledge of the region and the uses of plants by their populations.
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Francisco M. P. Gonçalves, ISCSED Huíla, Department of Natural Sciences, Lubango Herbarium (Angola); University of Hamburg, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology (Germany)
Researcher at the Lubango Herbarium (LUBA) linked to ISCED Huíla. He was born on March 7, 1982 in the province of Huambo, Angola, graduating in Plant Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of Agostinho Neto University, Luanda. He is currently attending a PhD in Plant Ecology from the Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He coordinated several research projects on Biodiversity in the country in the areas of Botany, Conservation Biology, Plant Ecology, and also interest in Mountain Ecology.
Júlia Elizabeth Tchamba, ISCSED Huíla, Department of Natural Sciences, Lubango Herbarium (Angola)
Non-resident researcher at the Lubango Herbarium (LUBA). She was born on September 2, 1989 in the city of Lubango, Huila province. She was a student of the Biology Course at ISCED Huíla, during her Bachelor's degree in the Herbarium was responsible for compiling the field notes of the collector and ex. Healer of the Herbarium José Maria Daniel. These important information served as a basis for the elaboration of her final work of the course degree. Júlia's interests include, in addition to the teaching of biology, research in the field of ethnobotany.
Fernanda Maria Oliveira Pires Lages, ISCSED Huíla, Department of Natural Sciences, Lubango Herbarium (Angola)
Assistant Professor at ISCED Huíla and researcher at the Herbarium of the same institution. She was born on October 2, 1953 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Graduated in Biology from Agostinho Neto University in Luanda, she graduated from the University of Minho in Portugal. For more than two decades, she was a lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences of Luanda and a researcher at the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources. In 2007 she settled in Lubango, where she continues his teaching activity related to the training of Biology teachers. Since that time, she has worked for a recovery and valorization of the scientific collections of the former Institute of Scientific Research of Angola and supported a training of Angolans in the areas of Biodiversity, Conservation Biology and Ecology.
José Luís Mateus Alexandre, ISCSED Huíla, Department of Natural Sciences, Lubango Herbarium (Angola)
Currently Professor and General Director of ISCED Huíla since the year 2015. He was born on January 15, 1968 in the province of Huambo, Angola. In 2003 he received his PhD in Biology from the University of St. Petersburg, Russia. He was Vice Dean for Scientific and Post-Graduation at ISCED Huíla between 2006-2009, and served as Vice Rector for the Scientific Area of the University Mandume Ya Ndemufayo, based in the city of Lubango, Huíla province. He has interests in the areas of Plant Ecology and Environmental Management.