ABSTRACT
Other researchers have followed similar protocols, restricting the disclosure of ethnobotanical information to species that have already been published (eg Alexiades, 1999), or not including species names (eg Sheppard, 2000), as a way of preventing the data being incorporated into such literature databases as NAPRALERT. Cunningham (1996) relates a case in which the Martu aboriginal people in Australia considered publication of common and widespread uses acceptable, but requested that vernacular names of localized plants not be published. In this way, any outsider interested in these plants is required to work through local communities, allowing them greater control over the use of these species in the future.
