Myrica esculenta Buch.- Ham. Ex D. Don. - a potential ethnomedicinal species in a subtropical forest of Meghalaya, northeast India

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 1, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  Jeeva, Solomon ^a,b   Lyndem, Febreena Grace ^a   Sawian, Jasmine Therese ^a   Laloo, Roytre Christopher ^a   Mishra, Banu Prakash ^a,c  

^a NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NM Christian College   (India)

^c MIZORAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Khasi tribe; Meghalya; Myrica esculenta,Population structure; Regeneration status

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; FOREST; INDIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MYRICA ESCULENTA; MYRICACEAE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT REGENERATION; PLANT SEED; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPLING; SEEDLING; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SUBTROPICAL FOREST; WOOD;

MYRICA;

EID: 84857943037     PISSN: 22211691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2221-1691(11)60150-0     Document Type: Article

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