An ethnobotanical study among Albanians and Aromanians living in the Rraicë and Mokra areas of Eastern Albania

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 477-500

  Pieroni, Andrea ^a   Ibraliu, Alban ^b   Abbasi, Arshad Mehmood ^c   Papajani Toska, Vilma ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

^c Department of Environmental Sciences COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

^d University of Medicine   (Albania)

Author keywords

Albania; Albanians; Aromanians; Ethnobiology; Ethnobotany

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TREATMENT; ETHNOBOTANY; FLOWER; GENETIC RESOURCE; LEAF; MEDICINAL PLANT; RELIGION; VEGETABLE;

ALBANIA;

ANIMALIA; CHENOPODIUM; ILEX AQUIFOLIUM; RUMEX; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84928320413     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-014-0174-6     Document Type: Article

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