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Zanthoxylum armatum DC.Zanthoxylum oxyphyllum Edgew. Rutaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Abstract

Zanthoxylum armatum DC.: Fagara armata Thunb; Zanthoxylum alatum Roxb; Zanthoxylum alatum var. planispinum (Siebold & Zucc.) Rehderand E.H. Wilson; Zanthoxylum arenosum Reeder and S.Y. Cheo; Zanthoxylum bungei Hance; Zanthoxylum hostile Wall; Zanthoxylum kibada Siebold; Zanthoxylum violaceum Wall; Zanthoxylum alatum Hemsl; Zanthoxylum alatum var. subtrifoliolatum Franch.; Zanthoxylum planispinum Siebold & Zucc.

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  1. Department of Pharmacy, Novel Academy, Pokhara, Nepal

    Biswash Sapkota, Prakash Poudel & Jyoti Sherchan

  2. School of Health and Allied Sciences, Pokhara University, Pokhara, Nepal

    Rashmi Thapa

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  4. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  5. Islamia College Peshawar Jamrod Road, University Campus Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

  6. Department of Environment Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan

    Arshad Mehmood 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

  8. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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    Hassan Sher

  3. Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Sapkota, B. et al. (2021). Zanthoxylum armatum DC.Zanthoxylum oxyphyllum Edgew. Rutaceae. 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_261-1

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