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Curcuma aromatica Salisb. Curcuma longa L. Curcuma zedoaria (Christm.) Roscoe Zingiberaceae

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Curcuma aromatica Salisb.: Curcuma wenyujin Y.H. Chen & C. Ling

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    Hari Prasad Devkota & Anjana Adhikari-Devkota

  2. College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Key Laboratory for Agro-Products Postharvest Handling of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Agro-Food Processing, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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  3. TIFAC-CORE in Herbal Drugs, Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytopharmacy, JSS College of Pharmacy (JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research), Udhagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, India

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    Prakash Poudel

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    Dhaka Ram Bhandari

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Devkota, H.P. et al. (2021). Curcuma aromatica Salisb. Curcuma longa L. Curcuma zedoaria (Christm.) Roscoe Zingiberaceae. 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_70

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