How to cite this Dataset
Prakash, Ranee Om (2022): Data supporting ethnobotanical insights from an historical herbarium: the Samuel Browne collections from early modern India. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000423
Description
These files are eAppendices containing ethnobotanical data collected from several locations in peninsular India (southeast India- Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, southwest India- Kerala) and Sri Lanka which are part of a PhD Thesis. The data is generated from existing literature resources from late 17th century to modern century up to 2021. The data is in tabular format. These are excel spreadsheets saved as .csv files.
| Resource Type: | Dataset |
|---|---|
| Creators: | Prakash, Ranee Om  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6869-2520 |
| Contributors: | Hawkins, Julie A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9048-8016 and Carine, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1817-0281 |
| Rights-holders: | Ranee Om Prakash |
| Data Publisher: | University of Reading |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Data last accessed: | 18 December 2024 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000423 |
| Metadata Record URL: | https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/423 |
| Organisational units: | Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences |
| Participating Organisations: | University of Reading |
| Keywords: | historic herbarium, ethnobotany, Samuel Browne, James Petiver, Fort St George, traditional Knowledge, heterogeneity, Indian medicinal plant use, vernacular names, palm labels, Andhra Pradesh, diachronic analysis, East India Company, Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede, Hortus Malabaricus, Kerala, medicinal use, plant uses, Paul Hermann, Peninsular India, Sir Hans Sloane, Sri Lanka, Tamil, Tamil Nadu, Telugu, therapeutic applications, variation in traditional knowledge, conspecific plant specimens, core medicinal flora, South East Asia, biodiversity |
| Rights: | |
| Data Availability: | EMBARGOED |
| Embargo Expiry Date: | 31 October 2025 |
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