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Pyrus communis L. Pyrus pashia Buch.-. ex D. Don. Rosaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Pyrus communis: English: pear.

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

    Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  3. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Abbasi, A.M., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Pyrus communis L. Pyrus pashia Buch.-. ex D. Don. Rosaceae. 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_200-1

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