Ethnobotanical research on medicinal plants: A review of its goals and current approaches;La investigación etnobotánica sobre plantas medicinales: UNA revisión de sus objettvos y enfoques actuales

Interciencia

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Bermúdez, Alexis ^a   Oliveira Miranda, María A ^b   Velázquez, Dilia ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

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