GULF OF GUINEA ISLANDS' BIODIVERSITY
NETWORK
NOMES VULGARES DA FLORA DE SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE
ESTRELA FIGUEIREDO
Centro da Botanica, IICT, Trav. Conde da Ribeira 9, 1300-142 Lisboa, Portugal. Email: e.p.figueiredo@mail.telepac.pt
Garcia de Orta, Ser. Bot. 15(1): 109-139
ABSTRACT
A list of taxa of the flora of São Tomé e Príncipe with the corresponding vernacular names, compiled from the literature and herbarium specimens, is presented.
REVIEW
This list draws together all known local names of plants cited in the various botanical catalogues and papers on the flora of São Tomé e Príncipe. This should be of great use to field researchers visiting the country. However, it must be noted that the sources from which the list was compiled rarely recognised the different languages that exist in the country and this is not acknowledged in the paper's brief introduction. The principal Forro creole exists alongside the Angolar creole (derived from a population that lived in isolation until the end of the 19th century), the native Príncipense creole Monco, the creole of Cape Verde immigrants, the Angolan languages of which some still retain knowledge and, of course, Portuguese.
A useful source for fieldworkers - and the basis of a future ethnobotanical/linguistic study!