Herbolario v. 1: A Database of Medicinal Plants Used in the 21st Century by Ethnolinguistic Groups in the Philippines

Herbolario v. 1 presents a comprehensive FAIR dataset focusing on the diversity and distribution of ethnomedicinal plants used by 35 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines. The database includes 33 metadata for 13, 402 interaction records of ethnolinguistic groups of 796 plant (and algae) species from 160 families and 68 orders. We curated all the georeferenced species occurrences, including the ethnolinguistic groups, using it and the types of disease it is being used for; this information was made available through the Zenodo data repository.

Table 1. Metadata of the georeferenced information of traditional medicinal plants used by indigenous people in the Philippines in the 21st century.

Column label

Column description

Variable type

basisOfRecord 

The specific nature of the data record. 

Nominal

occurrenceID 

An identifier for the Occurrence. 

Nominal sequence

occurrenceStatus

A statement about the presence or absence of a taxon at a location.

Nominal

associatedReferences 

A list (concatenated and separated) of identifiers (publication, bibliographic reference, global unique identifier, URI) of literature associated with the Occurrence. 

eventDate  

The year or interval during which the occurrence Event was recorded. 

Continuous

 stateProvince

The name of the next smaller administrative region than country (state, province, canton, department, region etc.) in which the Location occurs. 

Nominal

locality 

The specific description of the place where the species was recorded. 

Nominal

decimalLatitude 

The geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic centre of a Location. 

Continuous

(WGS84 DD)

decimalLongitude 

The geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic centre of a Location. 

Continuous

(WGS84 DD)

georeferencedBy 

A list (concatenated and separated) of names of people, groups or organisations who determined the georeference (spatial representation) for the Location. 

Nominal

scientificName

The full scientific name in lowest level taxonomic rank that can be determined. 

Nominal

order 

The full scientific name of the order in which the taxon is classified. 

Nominal

family 

The full scientific name of the phylum or division in which the taxon is classified. 

Nominal

genus 

The full scientific name of the genus in which the taxon is classified. 

Nominal

specificEpithet 

The name of the first or species epithet of the scientificName. 

Nominal

DigitalObjectIdentifier

The permanent object identifier of the associatedReferences.

N/A

ethnoGroup

Ethnolinguistic groups in the identified by the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP).

Nominal

diseaseTypeUse

Broad classification of disease types based on WHO (2019)

Nominal

specificDiseaseTypeUse

Specific classification of disease types based on reports.

Nominal

conservationStatus

Conservation status of species based on the International Union of Conservation of Nature Red List (v 2023-1)

Nominal

geopoliticalEndemism

The distribution limits of species based on the geopolitical occurrence in the Philippines.

Nominal