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Boerhavia diffusa L. Nyctaginaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Boerhavia diffusa L.: Axia cochinchinensis Lour.; Boerhavia adscendens Willd.; Boerhavia caribea Jacq. Boerhavia coccinea Mill.; Boerhavia coccinea fo. parcehirsuta Heimerl; Boerhavia coccinea var. leiocarpa (Heimerl) Standl.; Boerhavia decumbens Vahl; Boerhavia diandra Aubl.; Boerhavia diffusa var. hirsuta (Jacq.) Kuntze; Boerhavia diffusa var. leiocarpa (Heimerl) C.D. Adams; Boerhavia diffusa var. mutabilis R. Br.; Boerhavia diffusa var. paniculata (Rich.) Kuntze; Boerhavia diffusa var. viscosa (Lag. & Rodr.) Heimerl; Boerhavia erecta L.; Boerhavia hirsuta Willd.; Boerhavia ixodes Standl.; Boerhavialaxa Pers.; Boerhavia paniculata fo. leiocarpa Heimerl; Boerhavia paniculata Lam.; Boerhavia paniculata Rich.; Boerhavia polymorpha Rich.; Boerhavia ramulosa M.E. Jones.; Boerhavia reopens L.; Boerhavia repens var. diffusa (L.) Heimerl ex Kook. f.; Boerhavia sonorae Rose; Boerhavia squamata Raf.; Boerhavia surinamensis Miq.; Boerhavia viscosa fo. oligadena Heimerl; Boerhavia viscosa Lag. & Rodr.; Boerhavia viscosa subsp. apiculata Standl.

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  1. Department of Plant Resources, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Kuber Jung Malla

  2. Cultural Geography, Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  3. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal (ESON), Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  4. Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

  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 & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Malla, K.J., Kunwar, R.M., Jan, H.A., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Boerhavia diffusa L. Nyctaginaceae. 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_40

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