Wild edible plants used by the Kattunaikka, Paniya and Kuruma tribes of Wayanad District, Kerala, India

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 5, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3520-3529

  Ratheesh Narayanan, M K ^a   Anilkumar, N ^a   Balakrishnan, V ^a   Sivadasan, M ^b   Ahmed Alfarhan, H ^b   Alatar, A A ^b  

^a M S SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; India; Kattunaikka; Kerala; Kuruma; Paniya; Wayanad; Wild edible plants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DIETARY INTAKE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOBOTANY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PRESERVATION; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; INDIA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILD PLANT;

EID: 84860389376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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