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Argemone mexicana L. Papaveraceae

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Southeast Asia

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Argemone alba Raf.; A. alba var. leiocarpa Fedde; A. leiocarpa Greene; A. leiocarpa var. mexicanoides Fedde; A. leiocarpa var. ochroleucoides Fedde; A. mexicana var. anacanthoidea Fedde; A. mexicana f. leiocarpa (Greene) Ownbey; A. mexicana var. parviflora Kuntze; A. mucronata Dum.Cours. ex Steud.; A. sexvalvis Stokes; A. spinosa Gaterau; A. spinosa Moench; A. versicolor Salisb.; Echtrus mexicanus (L.) Nieuwl.; E. trivialis Lour.; Papaver mexicanum (L.) E.H.L.Krause (POWO 2020)

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Devanathan, K. (2021). Argemone mexicana L. Papaveraceae. In: Franco, F.M. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Southeast Asia. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38389-3_104

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