Conservation threats to some important medicinal plants of the Sikkim Himalaya

Biological Conservation

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-33

  Rai, L K ^a   Prasad, Pankaj ^a   Sharma, E ^a  

^a G B PANT INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; MEDICINAL PLANT;

INDIA;

ACONITUM; ACONITUM HETEROPHYLLUM; BERGENIA; BERGENIA CILIATA; CILIOPHORA; HETEROPHYLLUM; NARDOSTACHYS JATAMANSI; PICRORHIZA KURROOA; PODOPHYLLUM; SINOPODOPHYLLUM HEXANDRUM; SWERTIA; SWERTIA CHIRATA;

EID: 0034010065     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00116-0     Document Type: Article

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