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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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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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