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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Juglans regia var. chinensis D. DC.; Juglans duclouxiana Dode; Juglans fallax Dode; Juglans kamaonia (C. DC.) Dode; Juglans orientis Dode; Juglans sinensis (C. DC.) Dode

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  1. Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara, Nepal

    Dhruba Bijaya GC & Jyoti Bhandari

  2. Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

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

    Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  5. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  7. Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University Pokhara Campus, Pokhara, Nepal

    Deepak Gautam

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GC, D.B. et al. (2021). Juglans regia L. Juglandaceae. In: Kunwar, R.M., Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Himalayas. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57408-6_132

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