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Persea americana Mill. Lauraceae

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Ethnobotany of the Andes

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Persea americana Mill.: Laurus persea L.; Persea americana var. angustifolia Miranda; Persea americana var. drymifolia (Schltdl. & Cham.) S.F. Blake; Persea americana var. nubigena (L.O. Williams) L.E. Kopp; Persea drymifolia Schltdl. & Cham.; Persea edulis Raf.; Persea floccosa Mez.; Persea gigantea L.O. Williams; Persea gratissima C.F. Gaertn.; Persea gratissima var. macrophylla Meisn.; Persea gratissima var. oblonga Meisn.; Persea gratissima var. praecox Nees; Persea gratissima var. var. vulgaris Meisn.; Persea leiogyna S.F. Blake; Persea nubigena L.O. Williams; Persea paucitriplinervia Lundell; Persea persea (L.) Cockerell; Persea steyermarkii C.K. Allen

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  1. Herbario Nacionál de Bolivia, 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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana & Rainer W. Bussmann

  4. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Carolina Romero

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Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Bussmann, R.W., Romero, C. (2020). Persea americana Mill. Lauraceae. 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_225

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