Quantifying Medicinal Plant Knowledge among Non-Specialist Antanosy Villagers in Southern Madagascar

Economic Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Lyon, Linda M ^a   Hardesty, Linda H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnobotany; plant uses; Traditional; Tsitongambarika

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855495914     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-011-9185-9     Document Type: Article

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