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Elaeagnus angustifolia L. var. angustifolia L. Elaeagnaceae

Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

Part of the book series: Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions ((ETMORE))

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Elaeagnus angustifolia L. var. angustifolia L.: Elaeagnus angustifolia fo. culta Sosn., Elaeagnus angustifolia var. caspica Sosn., Elaeagnus angustifolia var. virescens Sosn., Elaeagnus hortensis M. Bieb., Elaeagnus hortensis subsp. moorscroftii (Wall. ex Schltr.) Servett., Elaeagnus moorcroftii Wall. ex Schltr., Elaeagnus oleaster L.

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  1. Islamia College Peshawar Jamrod Road, University Campus, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

  2. Department of Botany, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Wahid Hussain

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

    Mehmood Arshad Abbasi

  4. Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Swat, Mingora, Pakistan

    Hassan Sher

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  6. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Jan, H.A., Hussain, W., Abbasi, M.A., Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Elaeagnus angustifolia L. var. angustifolia L. Elaeagnaceae. 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_90-1

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