Ethnic group 【Tibetan】 Gyirong Town, Tibet
Main use Making wooden bowls
Source Xiao-Yong Ding, Chang-An Guo, Hua-Bin Hu, Yu-Hua Wang. Plants for making wooden bowls and related traditional knowledge in the Gyirong Valley, Tibet, China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, (2022) 18:13.
Ethnic group 【Hani (Aini)】 Daka Old Village, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan
Main use Repelling mosquitoes and insects
Source Yi Gou, Zhennan Li, Ruyan Fan, Changan Guo, Lu Wang, Hongzheng Sun, Jiping Li, Chengpeng Zhou, Chen Wang, Yuhua Wang. Ethnobotanical survey and evaluation of traditional mosquito repellent plants of Dai people in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 262 (2020) 113124.
Ethnic group 【Hani (Aini)】 Daka Old Village, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan
Main use Relieving blisters and itching
Source Yi Gou, Zhennan Li, Ruyan Fan, Changan Guo, Lu Wang, Hongzheng Sun, Jiping Li, Chengpeng Zhou, Chen Wang, Yuhua Wang. Ethnobotanical survey and evaluation of traditional mosquito repellent plants of Dai people in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 262 (2020) 113124.
Ethnic group 【Lisu; Nu; Derung】 Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan
Main use Lacquer oil pressed from lacquer-tree seeds used as cooking oil
Source Liu L, Cai F, Lu Y, Xie Y, Li H and Long C (2022) Comparative Lipidomic and Metabolomic Analyses Reveal the Mystery of Lacquer Oil from Toxicodendron vernicifluum for the Treatment of “Yuezi” Disease in Nujiang, China: From Anti-Inflammation and Anti-Postpartum Depression Perspective. Front. Pharmacol. 13:914951. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.914951
Ethnic group 【Lisu; Nu; Derung】 Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan
Main use Lacquer oil pressed from lacquer-tree seeds used as cooking oil
Source Liu L, Cai F, Lu Y, Xie Y, Li H and Long C (2022) Comparative Lipidomic and Metabolomic Analyses Reveal the Mystery of Lacquer Oil from Toxicodendron vernicifluum for the Treatment of “Yuezi” Disease in Nujiang, China: From Anti-Inflammation and Anti-Postpartum Depression Perspective. Front. Pharmacol. 13:914951. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.914951
Ethnic group 【Sherpa】 Chentang Town, Tibet
Main use Staple food against hunger
Source Ding Xiaoyong. Ethnobotanical study of plants traditionally used by the Sherpa people in China. Master's thesis, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2022.
Ethnic group 【Sherpa】 Chentang Town, Tibet
Main use Staple food against hunger
Source Ding Xiaoyong. Ethnobotanical study of plants traditionally used by the Sherpa people in China. Master's thesis, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2022.
Ethnic group 【Monpa】 Mêdog County, Tibet
Main use Treating toothache
Source Shan Li, Yu Zhang, Yongjie Guo, Lixin Yang, Yuhua Wang. Monpa, memory, and change: an ethnobotanical study of plant use in Mêdog County, South-east Tibet, China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, (2020) 16:5.
Ethnic group 【Yao】 Yaoqu Yao Ethnic Township, Mengla County, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan
Main use Making indigo dye
Source Identity blues: the ethnobotany of the indigo dyeing by Landian Yao (Iu Mien) in Yunnan, Southwest China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, (2019) 15:13
Ethnic group 【Miao; Li】 Wuzhishan, Hainan
Main use Making indigo dye
Source Libin Zhang, Lu Wang, Anthony B. Cunningham, Yuru Shi, Yuhua Wang*. Island blues: indigenous knowledge of indigo-yielding plant species used by Hainan Miao and Li dyers on Hainan Island, China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, (2019) 15:31
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