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Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg Asteraceae

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Central Asia and Altai

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Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg: Leontodon taraxacum L.; Leontodon vulgare Lam.; Taraxacum dens-leonis Desf.; Taraxacum mexicanum DC.; Taraxacum officinale var. palustre Blytt; Taraxacum retroflexum H. Lindb.; Taraxacum subspathulatum A.J. Richards; Taraxacum sylvaticum R. Doll.; Taraxacum taraxacum (L.) H. Karst.; Taraxacum tenejapense A.J. Richards; Taraxacum vulgare Schrank

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  2. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili

  4. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

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    Zaal Kikvidze

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Bussmann, R.W., Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z. (2020). Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg Asteraceae. In: Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z., Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Central Asia and Altai. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77087-1_137-1

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