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Vernonia anthelmintica (L.) Willd. Asteraceae

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Ascaricida anthelminthica (L.) Sweet; Ascaricida indica Cass.; Baccharoides anthelminthica (L.) Moench; Centratherum anthelminthicum (L.) Gamble; Conyza anthelminthica L.; Dolosanthus sylvaticus Klatt; Phyllocephalum anthelminthicum (L.) S.R. Paul & S.L. Kapoor; Serratula anthelminthica (L.) Roxb.; Vernonia stenolepis Oliv.

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Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Vernonia anthelmintica (L.) Willd. Asteraceae. 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_255-1

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