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Justicia adhatoda L. Acanthaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Justicia adhatoda L.: Adhatoda adhatoda (L.) Huth; Adhatoda arborea Raf.; Adhatoda pubescens Moench; Adhatoda vasica Nees; Adhatoda zeylanica Medik.; Dianthera latifolia Salisb.; Ecbolium adhatoda (L.) Kuntze; Ecbolium latifolium (Benth. & Hook.f.) Kuntze; Gendarussa adhadota Steud.; Justicia caracasana Sieber ex Nees.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. National Trust for Nature Conservation, Bardia Conservation Program, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Laxmi Raj Joshi

  2. Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Suneeta Bhatta

  3. National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories, Department of Plant Resources, Godawari, Nepal

    Hem Raj Paudel

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  6. Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

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

    Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  9. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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    Hassan Sher

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    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Joshi, L.R. et al. (2021). Justicia adhatoda L. Acanthaceae. 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_136

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