Medicinal plants of the New Guinea highlands: An ethnopharmacologic and phytochemical update

Plants and Indigenous Medicine and Diet: Biobehavioral Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 186-210

  Johannes, Adell ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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