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Hedychium spicatum Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. Zingiberaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Hedychium spicatum Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.: Gandasulium sieboldii (Wall.) Kuntze; Gandasulium spicatum (Sm.) Kuntze; Hedychium acuminatum Roscoe; Hedychium album Buch.-Ham. ex Wall; Hedychium coronarium J. Koenig; Hedychium flavescens Lodd. ex Lindl.; Hedychium sieboldii Wall.; Hedychium spicatum var. acuminatum (Roscoe) Wall.; Hedychium spicatum var. khasianum C.B. Clarke ex Baker; Hedychium spicatum var. spicatum; Hedychium spicatum var. trilobum (wall. ex Roscoe) Wall.; Hedychium tavoyanum Horan.; Hedychium trilobum Wall. ex Roscoe

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  1. Trichandra Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Ghantaghar, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Razan Mahat & Asmita Thapa

  2. Asian Center for Development, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Rameshwar Bhattarai

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  4. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Hassan Sher

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

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Mahat, R., Thapa, A., Bhattarai, R., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Hedychium spicatum Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. Zingiberaceae. 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_114

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