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Juniperus communis L. Juniperus excelsa M. Bieb. Juniperus indica Bertol. Juniperus pseudosabina var. turkestanica (Kom.) Silba Juniperus recurva Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Juniperus sibirica Burgsd. Juniperus squamata Buch.-Ham. ex D. DonCupressaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Juniperus macropoda Boiss.; Juniperus polycarpos K. Koch

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  1. Patan Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ila Shrestha

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Wahid Hussain

  4. Islamia College Peshawar University Campus, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

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

    Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  7. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Shrestha, I. et al. (2021). Juniperus communis L. Juniperus excelsa M. Bieb. Juniperus indica Bertol. Juniperus pseudosabina var. turkestanica (Kom.) Silba Juniperus recurva Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Juniperus sibirica Burgsd. Juniperus squamata Buch.-Ham. ex D. DonCupressaceae. 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_134-1

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