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Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult. Caryophyllaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult.: Alsine rotudifolia Stokes, Bufonia rotundifolia Buch. Ham. Ex Steud; Drymaria adenophora Urb., Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Sw.) J.A. Duke, Drymaria cordata var. diandra (Sw.) Grieseb., Drymaria cordata var. pacifica Mizush., Drymaria cordata var. puberula Triana & Planch., Drymaria diandra (Sw.) Macfad., Drymaria diandra Blume, Drymaria procumbens Rose, Holosteum cordatum L., Holosteum diandrum Sw., Stellaria adenophora (Urb.) León

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

    Anjana Devkota

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  3. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  5. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Devkota, A., Kunwar, R.M., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult. Caryophyllaceae. In: Kunwar, R.M., Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Himalayas. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45597-2_86-1

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