Herbarium Specimen of the Institute of Traditional Medicine, Tanzania
Citation
Otieno J (2011). Herbarium Specimen of the Institute of Traditional Medicine, Tanzania. TanBIF. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/xn5oev accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-31.Description
The data set provided is a record of Herbarium collections mostly medicinal plant species recorded from local healers in various parts of Tanzania. The voucher specimen are deposited at the Institute of Traditional Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania. The Institute of Traditional Medicine is charged with the responsibility to research into traditional healing systems, in Tanzania, and identify materia medica which can be modernized and developed into drugs and useful traditional healing practices which can be adopted for improvement of the health of the people. The generation of safety and efficacy data on these plants and remedies is a pre-requisite before these remedies can be streamlined into the health care system. It is estimated that there are about 10,000 records of plant specimen at the institute. The digitization work was initiated by INASP by supporting training on digitization, the work was implemented by the university under the financial support of GBIF. A total of 4500 records are uploaded to the GBIF Tanzania node known as Tanzania Biological Information Facility (TanBIF) and can be viewed through GBIF web.Purpose
Collection, preservation and conservation of medicinal plants of TanzaniaSampling Description
Study Extent
Data are limited to Traditional Practitioners in Tanzania. Additional records were given by various bioprospectors from outside Tanzania.Sampling
Questionnaires, workshops and conferences that involved Traditional practitionersQuality Control
Identities of voucher specimen was varified at reputable national and collaborators herbaria i.e Kew and Missoury Botanical Garden During data entry, a checlist prepared by COSTECH was used to verify names of plants. Gazeteers was used for georeferencing especially for data deficient specimensMethod steps
Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Most plant specimen presented in this publication are from the Eastern Tanzania including but not limited to Coast and Morogoro regions. Some collection were duplicate collections by various researchers from outside Tanzania. Some of these were taxonomic collections or random collection without established medicinal use.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Joseph Otienooriginator
position: Herbarium data manager
Institute of Traditional Medicine
P.O.BOX 65001
Dar es Salaam
+255
Dar es Salaam
TZ
Telephone: 0784412625
email: onicolao@yahoo.co.uk
homepage: http://www.muhas.ac.tz
Joseph Otieno
metadata author
position: Herbarium data manager
Institute of Traditional Medicine
P.O.BOX 65001
Dar es Salaam
+255
Dar es Salaam
Telephone: 0784412625
email: onicolao@yahoo.co.uk
homepage: http://www.muhas.ac.tz
Zacharia Mbwambo
author
position: Director
TZ
Rogasian Mahunnah
author
TZ
Mainen Moshi
author
TZ
Febronia Uiso
author
TZ
Modest Kapingu
administrative point of contact
TZ
Joseph Otieno
administrative point of contact
position: Herbarium data manager
Institute of Traditional Medicine
P.O.BOX 65001
Dar es Salaam
+255
Dar es Salaam
TZ
Telephone: 0784412625
email: onicolao@yahoo.co.uk
homepage: http://www.muhas.ac.tz