Abstract
Folk names of plants are the roots of traditional plant biodiversity knowledge. This paper mainly records and analyses the wild plant folk names of the Mongolians in the Ejina desert area based on a field survey for collection and identification of voucher specimens. The results show that a total of 121 folk names of local plants have correspondence with 93 scientific species which belong to 26 families and 70 genera. The correspondence between plants' Mongol folk names and scientific species may be classified as one to one correspondence, multitude to one correspondence and one to multitude correspondence. The Ejina Mongolian plant folk names were formed on the basis of observations and an understanding of the wild plants growing in their desert environment. The high correspondence between folk names and scientific names shows the scientific meaning of folk botanical nomenclature and classification. It is very useful to take an inventory of biodiversity, especially among the rapid rural appraisal (RRA) in studying biodiversity at the community level.
Highlights
Indigenous knowledge is the systematic information that remains in diverse social structures
Based on the results of identifying the specimens, the folk names corresponded with 91 scientific species which belong to 26 families and 70 genera
The high correspondence between folk names and scientific names shows the scientific meaning of folk botanical nomenclature and classification
Summary
Indigenous knowledge is the systematic information that remains in diverse social structures It is usually unwritten and preserved only through oral tradition, and it refers to the knowledge system of indigenous people and minority cultures. Examples of such links have been quoted by Berlin et al who has looked at the relationship between folk names and scientific names [1,2,3,4] For this reason, it has been brought into "Convention on Biological Diversity" (CBD). Folk systems of naming and classification transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment In this case, it undoubtedly fell into the category of "Intangible Cultural Heritage" (ICH) of humanity. In "Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage", "oral (page number not for citation purposes)
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