Ethnomedicinal plants of India with special reference to an Indo-Burma Hotspot Region: An overview

Ethnobotany Research and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages 379-420

  Rai, Prabhat Kumar ^a   Lalramnghinglova, H ^a  

^a MIZORAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

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DOI: 10.17348/era.9.0.379-420     Document Type: Article

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