The diverse uses of fish-poison plants in Northwest Guyana

Economic Botany

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 500-512

  Van Andel, T ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cancer; Ethnobotany; Fish poison plants; Guyana; Indigenous peoples; Lonchocarpus; Tephrosia; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

LONCHOCARPUS; TEPHROSIA; TEPHROSIA SINAPOU;

EID: 0034468417     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02866548     Document Type: Article

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