The diversity of epiphytic bacterial community on each
ethnomedicinal plant under study was evaluated using
Simpson’s index of dominance (D) [14], Simpson’s diversity
index (1-D), Shannon–Wiener’s (H
) method [15].
Bacterial alpha diversity was estimated with Fisher’s
alpha (F) [16]. Species richness (S) and evenness (E)
of species was evaluated using the formula of Pielou