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Rumex nepalensis Spreng. Rumex hastatus D. Don Rumex longifolius DC. Polygonaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Rumex nepalensis Spreng.: Rumex baehnii Rech. f., Rumex bequaertii De Wild., Rumex bequaertii var. quarrei (De Wild.) Robyns., Rumex camptodon Rech. f., Rumex esquirolii H. Lév., Rumex hamatus Trevir., Rumex hamulosus Meisn., Rumex hararensis Dammer., Rumex nepalensis var. nepalensis, Rumex quarrei De Wild., Rumex ramulosus Meisn., Rumex roxburghianus Schult. & Schult. f., Rumex steudelianus Meisn., Rumex uncatus Schult. & Schult. f., Rumex uncinatus Schult. & Schult. f.

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  1. Department of Medical Science, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Republic of Korea

    Grinsun Sharma

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

    Rashmi Thapa

  3. Department of Pharmacy, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Republic of Korea

    Santosh Lamichhane

  4. National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories, Godawari, Nepal

    Hem Raj Paudel

  5. Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

    Hari Prasad Devkota

  6. Department of Pharmacy, Novel Academy, Purbanchal University, Pokhara, Nepal

    Prakash Poudel

  7. Islamia College Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

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

    Hassan Sher

  9. United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Ikram Ur Rahman

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

    Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Sharma, G. et al. (2021). Rumex nepalensis Spreng. Rumex hastatus D. Don Rumex longifolius DC. Polygonaceae. 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_209-2

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