Medicinal uses of plants by the inhabitants of Khunjerab national park, Gilgit, Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2301-2310

  Khan, Babar ^a,b   Abdukadir, Ablimit ^a   Qureshi, Rahmatullah ^c   Mustafa, Ghulam ^b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b World Wide Fund for Nature ^*  (Pakistan)

^c PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMARANTHACEAE; ASTERACEAE; ELAEAGNACEAE; FABACEAE; LAMIACEAE; ROSACEAE;

EID: 80054738977     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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