Medicinal plants used in Dalaman (Muğla), Turkey

Abstract

In the present paper, 95 traditional medicinal plants from Dalaman district have been reported. The 95 species belonged to 42 families and among them 64 species were wild and 31 species were cultivated plants. The informant consensus factor (F ic) and the fidelity level (FL) of the species were calculated. The category that had the highest F ic value was cold and flu (0.85) followed by stomach ailments (0.83); the category with the lowest F ic value was intestinal ailments (0.39). Allium sativum, Citrus limonum, Olea europaea var. europaea and Vitis vinifera had the highest fidelity level and Nerium oleander had the lowest. The traditional medicinal plants were mostly used for the treatment of stomach ailments (31.6%), intestinal ailments (27.4%), wounds, burns and cough (13.7%), cold, flu (12.6%), and diabetes (10.5%). The most frequently used families were Lamiaceae, Rosaceae, Fabaceae, Liliaceae and Apiaceae.