Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used to Treat Human and Livestock Ailments in Hulet Eju Enese Woreda, East Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Table 7

Direct matrix ranking for six selected plant species and main use in study area.

Plant species	Use categories
	Medicine	Forage	Fire wood	Charcoal	Fence	Construction	Furniture	Total	Rank
Croton macrostachyus	5	2	5	2	4	0	1	19	5^th
Eucalyptus globulus	3	0	5	3	5	5	5	25	2^nd
Cordia africana	2	5	5	3	4	3	5	27	1^st
Acacia abyssinica	3	2	5	5	3	2	0	21	4^th
Dodonaea angustifolia	3	4	5	2	5	3	0	22	3^rd
Euphorbia abyssinica	5	0	4	3	4	0	3	16	6^th
Total	21	13	29	18	25	13	14
Rank	3^rd	6^th	1^st	4^th	2^nd	6^th	5^th