Quantitative ethnomedicinal study of plants used in the skardu valley at high altitude of Karakoram-Himalayan range, Pakistan

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bano, Abida ^a   Ahmad, Mushtaq ^a,b   Hadda, Taibi B ^c   Saboor, Abdul ^d   Sultana, Shazia ^a,b   Zafar, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Muhammad Pukhtoon Z ^a   Arshad, Muhammad ^d   Ashraf, Muhammad A ^e  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^d PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Medicinal plants; Northern Pakistan; Quantitative ethnobotany; Skardu valley

Indexed keywords

ASTERACEAE; LAMIACEAE; POLYGONACEAE; ROSACEAE;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PAKISTAN; PHYTOTHERAPY;

EID: 84901691758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-10-43     Document Type: Article

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