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Huaco and amole: A survey of the uses ofManfreda andProchnyanthes

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This paper is an expanded version of a talk given at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany in Baltimore, Maryland, June 16, {dy1975}.

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Verhoek, S. Huaco and amole: A survey of the uses ofManfreda andProchnyanthes . Econ Bot 32, 124–130 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02866866

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