Local medicinal plants play important roles in the livelihood sustenance and health care of rural and urban dwellers in Nigeria. However, overexploitation, unsustainable harvesting methods, deforestation, uncontrolled logging, overgrazing, urbanization and commercial agriculture have endangered several important local medicinal plants populations. Conservation of these plants in protected areas is, therefore, necessary for sustainable supply, research, and preservation of their genetic resources. As part of ATHMSI cardinal objectives, some of the scarce medicinal plants are selected for ex-situ conservation in our medicinal plants farm located at Gbongan, Osun State, Nigeria. ATHMSI is open for collaboration or funding in the areas of propagules collection, research on propagation, breeding, and conservation related areas.
SELECTED SCARCE MEDICINAL PLANTS in Nigeia
| S/No | Name | Yoruba Name | Uses |
| 1 | Senecio abysinicus | Amunimuye | Memory enhancer |
| 2 | Picralima nitida | Abeere | Cough and Haemorrhoid |
| 3 | Enanthia chlorantia | Awopa, Osopa | Malaria |
| 4 | Xylopia aethiopica | Eeru | Spice |
| 5 | Massularia acuminata | Orin Pako | Oral hygiene |
| 6 | Zanthoxyllum xanthoxyloides | Orin ata | Oral hygiene |
| 7 | Bulchozia coriacea | Wonderful cola | Malaria |
| 8 | Khaya ivorensis | Oganwo | Malaria, Memory enhancer |
| 9 | Gladiolus daleni | Baka | Pile |
| 10 | Aristolochia ringens | Akogun | Pile |
| 11 | Uvaria chamae | Eruju | Pile |
| 12 | Dinnetia tripetela | Pepper fruit | Malaria |