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Berberis aristata DC. Berberis asiatica Roxb. ex DC. Berberis chitria Lindl Berberis glaucocarpa Stapf Berberis lycium Royle Berberis orthobotrys Bien. ex Aitch. ssp. orthobotrys Berberis vulgaris L. Berberidaceae

Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Berberis chitria Buch.-Ham. ex Ker Gawl., Berberis chitria var. sikkimensis C.K. Schneid., Berberis sikkimensis (C.K. Schneid.) Ahrendt, Berberis sikkimensis var. baileyi Ahrendt, Berberis dealbata Lindl., Berberis hypoleuca Lindl., Berberis asiatica var. clarkeana C.K. Schneid., Berberis vinifera T.S. Ying (Harber 2020), Berberis chitria var. occidentalis Ahrendt, Berberis aristata DC, Berberis baluchistanica Ahrendt

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  1. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Bhaskar Adhikari

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

    Hassan Sher

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

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

  4. United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Ikram Ur-Rahman

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

    Wahid Hussain

  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

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    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

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Adhikari, B. et al. (2021). Berberis aristata DC. Berberis asiatica Roxb. ex DC. Berberis chitria Lindl Berberis glaucocarpa Stapf Berberis lycium Royle Berberis orthobotrys Bien. ex Aitch. ssp. orthobotrys Berberis vulgaris L. Berberidaceae. 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_35-1

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