Slimy leaves and oily seeds: Distribution and use of wild relatives of sesame in Africa

Economic Botany

Volumn 58, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Bedigian, Dorothea ^a  

^a MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Agricultural innovation; Ceratotheca; Ethnobotany; Famine; Gathering; Leaf vegetable; Medicine; Mucilage gland; Oilseed; Rogeria; Sesamum; Sorcery; Women's role

Indexed keywords

CERATOTHECA; CERATOTHECA SESAMOIDES; ROGERIA; SESAMUM; SESAMUM INDICUM;

EID: 14244261080     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0013-0001(2004)58[s3:slaosd]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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