Table 6.

Comparison of medicinal plants used by Meccan women (MW) identified at the species level (n = 95) with the inventories from selected literature sources. NA indicates that a source did not provide vernacular names or therapeutic uses

Reference (rural/urban)	Total number of species listed	New citations by MW	Species with different vernacular names	Species with different therapeutic uses
Abdulafatih 1987 (rural) [59]	61	81 (85%)	84 (88%)	85 (89%)
Al-Sodany et al. 2013 (rural) [41]	165	82 (86%)	NA	NA
El-Ghazali et al. 2010 (rural) [58]	47	87 (92%)	88 (93%)	90 (95%)
Ghazanfar 1994 (not specified) [36]	260	43 (45%)	53 (56%)	55 (58%)
Total literature	486	39 (41%)	48 (51%)	79 (83%)