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Lyonia ovalifolia (Wall.) Drude Ericaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Lyonia ovalifolia (Wall.) Drude: Andromeda ovalifolia Wall.; Andromeda capricida Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don; Andromeda cordata Royle; Andromeda squamulosa D.Don; Arbutus herpetica Coleb. ex Roxb.; Lyonia neziki Nakai & Hara; Pieridia ovalifolia (Wall.) Peterm.; Pieris ovalifolia (Wall.) D. Don; Xolisma ovalifolia (Wall.) Rehder

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  1. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Prabin Bhandari

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Prabin Bhandari

  3. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal (ESON), Kathmandu, Nepal

    Prabin Bhandari, Krishna Kumar Shrestha & Ripu M. Kunwar

  4. Cultural Geography, Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  6. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Bhandari, P., Shrestha, K.K., Kunwar, R.M., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Lyonia ovalifolia (Wall.) Drude Ericaceae. In: Kunwar, R., Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Himalayas. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45597-2_145-1

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