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Urtica dioica L.: Urtica tibetica W.T. Wang; Urtica galeopsifolia Wierzb. ex Opiz.

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  1. Islamia College Peshawar Jamrod Road, University Campus Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

  2. Department of Environment Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan

    Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

  3. College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China

    Maroof Ali Turi

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  5. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  6. Herbario Nacionál de Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Jan, H.A., Abbasi, A.M., Turi, M.A., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Urtica dioica L.Urticaceae. In: Kunwar, R.M., Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Himalayas. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45597-2_252-1

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