Communicating safely & effectively using plant names /

Medicinal plants are used globally and are thus known by different names in different communities, generations and languages. Unfortunately neither "Trade names" nor "Pharmacopoeia names" establish the identity of the species effectively and thus become used inconsistently, their...

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Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK469821/
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Main Author: Allkin, R. (Author)
Corporate Author: International Congress of Ethnopharmacology
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Kolkata (India) : Maven Publishers, 2014
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