Subject area	Biology, Pharmacology
More specific subject area	Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology
Type of data	Table, figure, Access database
How data was acquired	Literature review of published primary data
Data format	Coded, filtered, and analyzed
Experimental factors	Primary data on the useful plants of Central America
Experimental features	Publication with primary data searched using both English and Spanish Keywords in databases. Keywords: name of the country and “ethnobotany”, “medicinal plants”, “ethnopharmacology”, “ethnomedicine”, and “herbal medicine”.
Data source location	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK
Data accessibility	Data is within this article