Importance of bush grape (Vitex spp.) as food and medicinal plant to the Dagarti speaking people of the upper West Region of Northern Ghana

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 979, Issue , 2013, Pages 669-674

  Kranjac Berisavljevic, G ^a   Gandaa, B Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Conservation; Ethnobotany; Hunger gap; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879564790     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2013.979.74     Document Type: Conference Paper

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