Initial assessment of medicinal plants across the Libyan mediterranean coast

Advances in Environmental Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2 SPEC. ISSUE, 2011, Pages 359-370

  Louhaichi, M ^a   Salkini, A K ^a   Estita, H E ^b   Belkhir, S ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS ICARDA   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b Agricultural Research Center (ARC) El Baida   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Genebank; Herbarium; Libya; Medicinal plants; Multi purposes species; Rangelands

Indexed keywords

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; FABACEAE; LAMIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 79960410376     PISSN: 19950756     EISSN: 19981066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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