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Daphne bholua Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don. Daphne mucronata Royle Daphne papyracea Wall. ex G. Don. Thymelaeaceae

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Daphne bholua Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don.: Daphne cannabina var. bholua (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Keiss.

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  1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Shambhu Charmakar

  2. Cultural Geography, Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  3. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  4. Forest Research and Training Center, Ministry of Forests and Environment, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Megh Nath Kafley & Dhirendra Kumar Pradhan

  5. Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

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

    Mehmood Arshad Abbasi

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  8. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Charmakar, S. et al. (2021). Daphne bholua Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don. Daphne mucronata Royle Daphne papyracea Wall. ex G. Don. Thymelaeaceae. 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_76-2

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