Medicinal plants used in treating snakebites in Benue State, Nigeria

Temitope Onuminya1, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe2, George Nodza2, Temitope Onuminya3

1 University of Lagos, Department Of Botany, 23401, Akoka, Nigeria; 2 University of Lagos, DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, 23401, AKOKA, Nigeria; 3 University of Lagos, Department of Botany, 23401, Akoka, Nigeria

Corresponding author(s): Temitope Onuminya (tadeyemi@unilag.edu.ng)Oluwatoyin Ogundipe (oogundipe@unilag.edu.ng)George Nodza (gnodza@unilag.edu.ng), Temitope Onuminya (tadeyemi@unilag.edu.ng)

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Resource Citation

Onuminya T, Ogundipe O, Nodza G (2023): Medicinal plants used in treating snakebites in Benue State, Nigeria. v1.3. University of Lagos. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=snakebite&v=1.3

Abstract

This is an occurrence record of medicinal plants used by indigenous people in Benue state, Nigeria for the treatment of snake bites.

Keywords: Occurrence, Snakebites, Ethnobotany, Medicinal Plants, Benue, Nigeria, Observation

Project details

Project title: Expanding the visibility of the Lagos Herbarium through Digitization and Mobilization of Plant Specimen Data
Personnel: Temitope Onuminya
Funding: GBIF-BID Grant
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Lagos, Nigeria

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=snakebite

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Collection includes genus Annona, Anthocleista, Buchholzia, Rourea, Ceiba, Cnestis, Detarium, Entada, Erythrina, Gossypium, Lophira, Morinda, Nicotiana, Olax, Piliostigma, Tinospora, Philenoptera
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Tracheophyta

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The study was done in Benue state Nigeria
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: December 1, 2017

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Medicinal plants used in treating snakebites in Benue State, Nigeria
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=snakebite
Publication date of data: 2023-03-04
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-12-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset