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Dioscorea tambillensis R. Knuth Dioscorea trifida L. f. Dioscoreaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Andes

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Dioscorea trifida L. f.: Dioscorea affinis Kunth; Dioscorea angustifolia Rusby; Dioscorea brasiliana Poir.; Dioscorea brasiliensis Willd.; Dioscorea goyazensis Grieseb.; Dioscorea quinquelobata Vell.; Dioscorea ruiziana Klotzsch ex Kunth.; Dioscorea trifida var. tuberosa Stehlé; Dioscorea triloba H. Karst. ex Kunth; Dioscorea truncata Miq.

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  1. Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana & Rainer W. Bussmann

  2. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana & Rainer W. Bussmann

  3. Herbario Nacionál de Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  4. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Carolina Romero

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Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Bussmann, R.W., Romero, C. (2020). Dioscorea tambillensis R. Knuth Dioscorea trifida L. f. Dioscoreaceae. In: Paniagua-Zambrana, N., Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Andes. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28933-1_101

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