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Parnassia nubicola Wall. ex Royle. Celastraceae

Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

Part of the book series: Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions ((ETMORE))

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Parnassia nubicola: Ladakh: Futka; Nepali: Mamira

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Asha Paudel & Rabindra Parajuli

  2. Habitat Concern, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Rabindra Parajuli

  3. Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

    Suraj Upadhaya

  4. Himalayan Conservation and Research Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Suraj Upadhaya

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  6. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  8. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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  2. Center for Plant Sciences & Biodiversity, University of Swat, Pakistan, Udigram, Pakistan

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  3. Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Paudel, A., Parajuli, R., Upadhaya, S., Kunwar, R.M., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Parnassia nubicola Wall. ex Royle. Celastraceae. 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_175-1

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