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Heliotropium indicum (L.) Boraginaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Brazil

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Heliophytum indicum A.D.C.; Tiaridium indicum F.Lehm.; Heliophytum indicum (L.) DC.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Universidade Estadual da Paraíba. Centro de Ciências Biológicas. Laboratório de Ecologia Neotropical, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

    Kamila Marques Pedrosa

  2. Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul. Instituto de Biociências. Laboratório de Etnobotânica, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

    Camilla Marques de Lucena

  3. Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza. Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

    Rubens Teixeira de Queiroz

  4. Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul. Laboratório de Etnobotânica, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

    Ernane Nogueira Nunes

  5. Bolsista da FAPESQ - Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado da Paraíba. Pesquisador pós-doc do Programa de Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente – PRODEMA, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

    Ernane Nogueira Nunes

  6. Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza. Departamento de Geografia. Laboratório de Estudos do Semiárido - LAESA. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

    Ramon Santos Souza

  7. Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza. Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia. Laboratório de Ecologia Terrestre. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente – PRODEMA, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

    Denise Dias da Cruz

  8. Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul. Instituto de Biociências. Laboratório de Etnobotânica. Grupo de Pesquisa em Estudos Multidisciplinares e Socioecológicos, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

    Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena

  9. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente – PRODEMA. Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

    Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena

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Pedrosa, K.M. et al. (2022). Heliotropium indicum (L.) Boraginaceae. In: Farias Paiva de Lucena, R., Dias da Cruz, D. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Brazil. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47254-2_52-1

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