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Mussaenda frondosa L. Mussaenda macrophylla Wall. Rubiaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Cinchona gratissima Wall.; Mussaenda luculia Buch.- Ham. ex D. Don

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  1. Department of Pharmacy, Novel Academy, Pokhara, Nepal

    Jyoti Sherchan & Biswas Sapkota

  2. Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Health and Allied Sciences, Pokhara University, Pokhara, Nepal

    Rashmi Thapa

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  4. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  7. Department of Pharmacy, Novel Academy, Purbanchal University, Pokhara, Nepal

    Prakash Poudel

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Poudel, P., Thapa, R., Sherchan, J., Sapkota, B., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Mussaenda frondosa L. Mussaenda macrophylla Wall. Rubiaceae. 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_156

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