Chantal Posthouwer

ORCID: 0000-0003-1442-8895
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Research Areas
  • Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
  • Seed and Plant Biochemistry
  • African Botany and Ecology Studies
  • Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Naturalis Biodiversity Center
2018-2019

Leiden University
2016-2018

In Africa, traditional medicine is important for local healthcare and plants used these purposes are commonly traded. Identifying medicinal sold on markets challenging, as leaves, barks roots often fragmented or powdered. Vernacular names homonymic, identification of material lacking sufficient morphological characters time-consuming, season-dependent might lead to incorrect assessments commercialised species diversity.In this study, we identified cases vernacular heterogeneity using a...

10.1016/j.jep.2019.112495 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2019-12-23
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