Collection and trade of wild-harvested orchids in Nepal

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Subedi, Abishkar ^a,b   Kunwar, Bimal ^c   Choi, Young ^d   Dai, Yuntao ^d   van Andel, Tinde ^a   Chaudhary, Ram P ^c   de Boer, Hugo J ^a,e   Gravendeel, Barbara ^a  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Research and Development (LI BIRD)   (Nepal)

^c TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CITES; Commercialization; DNA barcoding; Orchids; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ORCHIDACEAE;

ARTICLE; DNA BARCODING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEDICINAL PLANT; NEPAL; ORCHIDACEAE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; NEPAL; ORCHIDACEAE; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84883146247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-9-64     Document Type: Article

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