Medico-ethnobotanical studies of edible wild fruit plants species from the flora of north western Pakistan (D. I. Khan district)

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 5, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3679-3686

  Marwat, Sarfaraz Khan ^a   Fazal ur Rehman, ^a   Usman, Khalid ^a   Khakwani, Abdul Aziz ^a   Ghulam, Said ^a   Anwar, Naveed ^b   Sadiq, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Shah Jehan ^a  

^a GOMAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Rifah Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Dera ismail khan; Medico ethnobotanical studies; Pakistan; Wild fruit plants

Indexed keywords

ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; CAPPARIS; CAPPARIS DECIDUA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDIA; CORDIA DICHOTOMA; CORDIA MYXA; DROUGHT; ETHNOBOTANY; FRUIT; GREWIA; GREWIA TENAX; JUJUBE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MONOTHECA BUXIFOLIA; NANNORRHOPS RITCHIANA; NELUMBO; NELUMBO NUCIFERA; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PLANT TAXONOMY; SALVADORA OLEOIDES; SALVADORA PERSICA; SALVADORACEAE; SAPOTACEAE; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WILD PLANT; ZIZYPHUS MAURITIANA; ZIZYPHUS NUMULARIA;

CAPPARIS DECIDUA; CORDIA DICHOTOMA; CORDIA MYXA; GREWIA TENAX; MONOTHECA BUXIFOLIA; NANNORRHOPS RITCHIANA; NELUMBO NUCIFERA; SALVADORA PERSICA; ZIZIPHUS; ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA;

EID: 80051965145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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