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The Ethnobotany of Herreria montevidensis Klotzsch ex Griseb. – Herreriaceae, in Corumbá, Brazil1

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the craftsmen Luís Augusto Ferreira, Angelino Ferreira, and Davi Ferreira Nasário for their help in the field, and for allowing us to accompany them during their daily activities. We also thank Dr. Germano Guarim Neto for his suggestion to undertake the work, Dr. Geraldo Alves Damasceno, Jr. and Dr. Iria Hiromi Ishii for their generous help in commenting on the manuscript as well as the editor of Economic Botany and an anonymous reviewer for valuable comments.

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  1. Departamento de Ciências do Ambiente, Campus de Corumbá, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Avenida Rio Branco, no. 1270, CEP 79304–902, Caixa Postal 252, Corumbá, MS, Brazil

    Juliana Magalhães Alvarez

  2. Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, CEP 21941-490, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Rosana Conrado Lopes

  3. Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Caixa Postal 549, CEP 79070900, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

    Ieda Maria Bortolotto

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Alvarez, J.M., Lopes, R.C. & Bortolotto, I.M. The Ethnobotany of Herreria montevidensis Klotzsch ex Griseb. – Herreriaceae, in Corumbá, Brazil1 . Econ Bot 62, 187–191 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-008-9011-1

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