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Ephedra americana Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Ephedra breana Phil. Ephedra multiflora Stapf Ephedra rupestris Benth. Ephedraceae

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Ethnobotany of the Andes

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Ephedra americana Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.: Ephedra americana var. humboldtii Stapf; Wphedra andina Poepp. ex C.A. Mey

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  1. Herbario Nacionál de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  2. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana & Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  4. Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, USACH, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Javier Echeverría

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Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Bussmann, R.W., Echeverría, J. (2020). Ephedra americana Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Ephedra breana Phil. Ephedra multiflora Stapf Ephedra rupestris Benth. Ephedraceae. In: Paniagua-Zambrana, N., Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Andes. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77093-2_109-1

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