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Taraxacum campylodes G.E. Haglund Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg Taraxacum sikkimense Hand.-Mazz. Asteraceae

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Taraxacum campylodes G.E. Haglund: Taraxacum lapponicum Kihlm. ex Hand.-Mazz.

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  1. Amrit Science College, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Sanjeev Luintel & Sabina Gyawali

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

    Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

  3. 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 & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Luintel, S., Gyawali, S., Abbasi, A.M., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Taraxacum campylodes G.E. Haglund Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg Taraxacum sikkimense Hand.-Mazz. Asteraceae. 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_242

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