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Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz. Lythraceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Acistoma coccineum Zipp. ex Span., Grislea micropetala Hochst. & Steud., Grislea punctata Buch. Ham. ex Sm., Grislea tomentosa Roxb., Lythrum fruticosum L., Lythrum hunteri DC., Lythrum punctatum Span., Woodfordia floribunda Salisb., Woodfordia fruticosa fo. genunia Kurz ex Koehne, Woodfordia tomentosa Bedd.

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  1. Division Forest Office Lamjung, Lamjung, Nepal

    Mohan Raj Kafle

  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. Islamia College Peshawar Jamrod Road, University Campus Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

  5. Department of Environment Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan

    Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  7. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Kafle, M.R., Kunwar, R.M., Jan, H.A., Abbasi, A.M., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz. Lythraceae. 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_260-1

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