| ethnomedicinal survey of a maroon community in brazil's atlantic tropical forest. | considerable medicinal plant research in brazil has focused on indigenous and mixed-race (caboclo and caiçara) communities, but relatively few studies have examined the medicinal plants and associated healing traditions of the descendants of enslaved africans. this study surveyed the medicinal plants employed by a relatively isolated maroon community of afro-brazilians in the atlantic coastal rainforests of bahia, brazil, a global biodiversity hotspot. the studied community is exceptional in tha ... | 2016 | 26802786 |