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Origanum majorana L. Origanum vulgare L. Lamiaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Andes

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Origanum vulgare L.: Micromeria formosana C. Marquand; Origanum creticum Lour.; Origanum dilatatum Klokov; Origanum glaucum Rech. f. & Edelb.; Origanum gracile C. Koch.; Origanum kopetdaghense Boris.; Origanum normale D. Don.; Origanum puberulum Klokov; Origanum tyttanthum Gontsch.; Origanum vulgare subsp. gracile (C. Koch) Letsw.; Origanum vulgare subsp. viride (Boiss.) Hayek; Origanum vulgare L. subsp. vulgare; Origanum vulgare var. formosanum Hayata; Origanum vulgare var. glaucum (Rech. f. & Edelb.) Hedge & Lamond; Origanum vulgare var. puberulum Beck; Origanum vulgare var. viride Boiss.; Origanum watsonii Schlagint. in T.A. Schmidt

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    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana & Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana & Rainer W. Bussmann

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    Carolina Romero

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Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Bussmann, R.W., Romero, C. (2020). Origanum majorana L. Origanum vulgare L. Lamiaceae. In: Paniagua-Zambrana, N., Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Andes. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28933-1_213

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