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Datura stramonium L. Solanaceae

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Datura stramonium L.: Datura bertolonii Parl. ex Guss.; Datura inermis Juss. ex Jacq.; Datura lurida Salisb.; Datura nigra Hassk; Datura parviflora Salisb.; Datura pseudostramonium Sieber ex Bernh.; Datura stramonium var. tatula (L.) Torr.; Datura tatula L.; Stramonium foetidum Scop.; Stramonium spinosum Lam.; Stramonium tatula (L.) Moench; Stramonium vulgatum Gaertn.

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Jan, H.A., Abbasi, A.M., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Datura stramonium L. Solanaceae. 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_77-2

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