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Podophyllum hexandrum Royle Berberidaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Dysosma emodi (Wall. ex Royle) Hiroe; Podophyllum emodi Wall.; Podophyllum emodi Wall ex Hook.f. & Thoms.; Podophyllum emodi var. hexandrum (Royle) Chatterjee & Mukerjee; Podophyllum hexandrum var. axillare (R. Chatterjee & Mukerjee) Browicz; Podophyllum hexandrum var. bhootanense (Chatterjee & Mukerjee) Browicz; Podophyllum hexandrum var. emodi (Hook.f. & Thoms.) Selivan; Podophyllum hexandrum var. jaeschkei (R. Chatterjee & Mukerjee) Browicz; Sinopodophyllum emodi (Wall. ex Royle) T. S. Ying; Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (Royle) Ying.

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  1. National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories, Department of Plant Resources, Ministry of Forests and Environment, Godawari, Lalitpur, Nepal

    Pratikshya Chalise

  2. Department of Botany, Capital College and Research Centre, Koteshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Yagya Raj Paneru

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

    Hassan Sher

  4. United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Ikram Ur Rahman

  5. Department of Botany, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Wahid Hussain

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

    Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  8. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  10. Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan

    Ikram Ur Rahman

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Chalise, P. et al. (2021). Podophyllum hexandrum Royle Berberidaceae. 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_192

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