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Rhamnus purpurea Edgew. Rhamnus virgata Roxb. Rhamnaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Rhamnus virgata Roxb.: Rhamnus cachemirica Gand.; Rhamnus dahuricus P. Lawson; Rhamnus leptophylla var. milensis C.K. Schneid. and Rhamnus virgata var. virgata

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  1. Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Khadka B. Bhandari

  2. Agriculture and Forestry University, Chitawan, Nepal

    Binayak Kunwar

  3. Cultural Geography, Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  4. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal (ESON), Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  5. Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  6. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  7. Herbario Nacionál de Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Bhandari, K.B., Kunwar, B., Kunwar, R.M., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Rhamnus purpurea Edgew. Rhamnus virgata Roxb. Rhamnaceae. In: Kunwar, R.M., Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Himalayas. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57408-6_202

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