Conservation and use of wild-harvested medicinal plants in Sri Lanka

Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 625-631

  Ratnayake, R S S ^a   Kariyawasam, C S ^a  

^a Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources   (Sri Lanka)

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