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Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. Poaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Brazil

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Cynosurus aegyptius L.; Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Pers.

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de Brito, M.F.M., Nunes, E.N., de Queiroz, R.T., Souza, R.S., da Cruz, D.D., de Lucena, R.F.P. (2022). Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. Poaceae. In: Farias Paiva de Lucena, R., Dias da Cruz, D. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Brazil. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47254-2_37-1

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