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Hypericum perforatum L. Hypericaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Hypericum perforatum L.: Hypericum nachitschevianicum Grossh.; Hypericum perforatum var. cinfertiflorum Debeaux; Hypericum perforatum var. microphyllum H. Lév.

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  1. Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

  2. Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Swat, Mingora, Pakistan

    Hassan Sher

  3. United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Ikram Ur Rahman

  4. Department of Botany, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Wahid Hussain

  5. Cultural Geography, Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  6. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal (ESON), Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  8. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  10. Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan

    Ikram Ur Rahman

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Jan, H.A. et al. (2021). Hypericum perforatum L. Hypericaceae. In: Kunwar, R.M., Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Himalayas. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57408-6_122

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