A Bornean database of plant uses and their cultural contexts: Introducing BioCultBase/Borneo

The study aim is to make biocultural information available. Data include local uses of plants and their cultural contexts from the biologically and culturally hyper-diverse island of Borneo. The database has been developed from secondary data extracted from scientific literature. Data include scientific and local plant names, plant parts used and uses divided into 22 use categories and ethnic belonging of informants. The included files represent the database, information on how the information was collected, search string, criteria and categories.