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Choerospondias axillaris (Roxb.) B.L. Burtt & A.W. Hill Anacardiaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Choerospondias axillaris (Roxb.) B.L. Burtt & A.W. Hill: Poupartia axillaris (Roxb.) King & Prain; Poupartia fordii Hemsl.; Spondias axillaris Roxb.; Cherospondias axillaris var. japonica (Ohwl)Ohwl; Rhus bodinieri H. Lev.; Spondias lutea Engl.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Tribhuvan, Nepal

    Krishna C. Paudel

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  3. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  5. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Paudel, K.C., Kunwar, R.M., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Choerospondias axillaris (Roxb.) B.L. Burtt & A.W. Hill Anacardiaceae. In: Kunwar, R., 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_55-1

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