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Though Gesneriaceae do not contain significant and widely used medicinal plants, a number of species have been (or still are) widely used by the indigenous people of tropical America and Asia. First detailed studies on gesneriad ethnobotany were carried out by Kvist (1986) and Kvist & Holm-Nielsen (1987) in Ecuador. A survey on medicinally used neotropical gesneriads was given by Wiehler (1995). At present, a compilation of worldwide ethnobotanically and medicinally used Gesneriaceae is made by Eberwein, Kvist & Weber (in prep.). Uses are extremely manifold, and no principal or predominant use of Gesneriaceae can be quoted. Here a few examples from the larger genera:
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