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Piper acutifolium Ruiz & Pav. Piper aduncum L. Piper aequale Vahl. Piperaceae

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Piper acutifolium Ruiz & Pav.: Artanthe acutifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Miq.; Piper mandonii C. DC.; Steffensia acutifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth

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Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Bussmann, R.W., Romero, C. (2020). Piper acutifolium Ruiz & Pav. Piper aduncum L. Piper aequale Vahl. Piperaceae. In: Paniagua-Zambrana, N., Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Andes. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28933-1_233

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