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Zea diploperennis Iltis, Doebley, & R. Guzmán Zea perennis (Hitchc.) Reeves & Mangelsd. Zea luxurians (Durieu & Asch.) R.M. Bird Zea nicaraguensis Iltis & B.F. Benz Zea vespertilio Gómez-Laur. Zea mays subsp. huehuetenangensis (Iltis & Doebley) Doebley Zea mays subsp. mexicana (Schrad.) Iltis Zea mays subsp. parviglumis Iltis & Doebley Zea mays L. subsp. Mays Poaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico

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This document present a summary of the main morphological, ecological and ethnobotanical characteristics of the taxa of Zea genus (Poaceae).

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    Iltis and Benz (2000), who described this species, reported that plants analyzed for type were not quite mature.

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  1. Laboratorio en Manejo de Recursos Genéticos, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sostenibilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico

    Cecilio Mota-Cruz

  2. Laboratorio de Botánica, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Centro Universitario de la Costa Sur, Universidad de Guadalajara, Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico

    Ramón Cuevas-Guzmán

  3. Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas, Guatemala, Guatemala

    Cesar Azurdia

  4. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Ambientales, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Iguala de la Independencia, Guerrero, Mexico

    Francisco Palemón-Alberto

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    José Juan Blancas Vázquez

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Mota-Cruz, C., Cuevas-Guzmán, R., Azurdia, C., Palemón-Alberto, F. (2022). Zea diploperennis Iltis, Doebley, & R. Guzmán Zea perennis (Hitchc.) Reeves & Mangelsd. Zea luxurians (Durieu & Asch.) R.M. Bird Zea nicaraguensis Iltis & B.F. Benz Zea vespertilio Gómez-Laur. Zea mays subsp. huehuetenangensis (Iltis & Doebley) Doebley Zea mays subsp. mexicana (Schrad.) Iltis Zea mays subsp. parviglumis Iltis & Doebley Zea mays L. subsp. Mays Poaceae. In: Casas, A., Blancas Vázquez, J.J. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77089-5_54-1

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