Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness

• Joelson Moreno Brito Moura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joelson Moreno Brito Moura, Risoneide Henriques da Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Taline Cristina da Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Risoneide Henriques da Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joelson Moreno Brito Moura, Risoneide Henriques da Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Taline Cristina da Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joelson Moreno Brito Moura, Risoneide Henriques da Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Taline Cristina da Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Investigações Bioculturais no Semiárido, Universidade de Pernambuco, Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Taline Cristina da Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joelson Moreno Brito Moura, Risoneide Henriques da Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Taline Cristina da Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Alagoas, Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas, Brazil

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• Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joelson Moreno Brito Moura, Risoneide Henriques da Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Taline Cristina da Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: upa677@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8131-8429

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