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Mentha arvensis L. Mentha longifolia (L.) L. Mentha royleana Benth. Mentha viridis (L.) L. Lamiaceae

Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Mentha arvensis L.: Calamintha arvensis (L.) Garsault.; Mentha agrestis Sole; Mentha alberti Sennen; Mentha angustifolia Schreb.; Mentha arvensis ssp. parietariifolia (Becker) Briq.; Mentha arvensis var. villosa (Benth.) S.R. Stewart; Mentha austriaca Jacq.; Mentha lapponica Wahlenb.; Mentha parietariifolia Becker ex Steud.

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  1. Islamia College Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammand Ahmad Jan

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

    Hassan Sher

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

    Wahid Hussain

  4. United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Ikram Ur Rahman

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  6. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  7. 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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    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Jan, H.A. et al. (2021). Mentha arvensis L. Mentha longifolia (L.) L. Mentha royleana Benth. Mentha viridis (L.) L. Lamiaceae. 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_151-1

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