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Dioscorea bulbifera L. Dioscorea deltoidea Wall. ex Kunth Dioscoreaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Dioscorea bulbifera L.: Dioscorea anthropophagorum A. Chev. ex Jum., Dioscorea bulbifera var. anthropophagorum (A. Chev. ex Jum.) Prain & Burkill ex Summerh., Dioscorea bulbifera var. sativa Prain, Dioscorea dodecaneura Vell., Dioscorea hoffa Cordem., Dioscorea hofkia Jum. & H. Perrier, Dioscorea latifolia Benth., Dioscorea longipetiolata Baudon, Dioscorea perrieri R. Knuth, Dioscorea pilosiuscula Bertero ex Spreng., Dioscorea sativa L., Dioscorea sativa Thunb., Dioscorea violacea Baudon, Helmia bulbifera (L.) Kunth

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  1. Department of Plant Resources, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Nirmala Joshi

  2. Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Swat, Mingora, Pakistan

    Hassan Sher

  3. United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Ikram Ur Rahman

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  5. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Joshi, N., Sher, H., Rahman, I.U., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Dioscorea bulbifera L. Dioscorea deltoidea Wall. ex Kunth Dioscoreaceae. In: Kunwar, R.M., 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_83-1

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