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Artemisia absinthium L. Artemisia biennis Willd. Artemisia bigelovii A. Gray Artemisia brevifolia Wall. ex DC. Artemisia scoparia Waldst. ex Kit. Artemisia vulgaris L. Asteraceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Artemisia biennis var. diffusa Dorn, Artemisia petrophila Wooton & Standl., Artemisis bigelowii (A. Gray) K. Bremer & Humphries; Seriphidium brevifoplium (Wall. ex DC.) Y. Ling & Y.-R. Ling; Artemisia capillaris fo. angustisecta Pamp., Artemisia capillaris fo. elegans (Roxb.) Pamp., Artemisia capillaris fo. kohatica (Klatt) Pamp., Artemisia capillaris fo. myriocephala Pamp., Artemisia capillaris fo. tenuifolia Pamp., Artemisia capillaris fo. villosa (Korsh.) Pamp., Artemisia capillaris fo williamsonii Pamp., Artemisia capillaris var. scoparia (Waldst. & Kit.) Pamp., Artemisia elegans Roxb., Artemisia kohatica Klatt, Artemisia scoparia fo. sericea Kom., Artemisia scoparia var. heteromorpha Kitag., Artemisia scopariiformis Popov, Olgosporus scoparius (Waldst. & Kit.) Less., Oligosporus scoparius (Waldst. & Kit.) Poljakov; Artemisia opulenta Pamp.; Artemisia vulgaris var. glabra Ledeb.; Artemisia vulgaris var. kamtschatica Besser.

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

    Wahid Hussain

  4. United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Ikram Ur Rahman

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  6. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  9. Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan

    Ikram Ur Rahman

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Jan, H.A., Sher, H., Hussain, W., Ur Rahman, I., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Artemisia absinthium L. Artemisia biennis Willd. Artemisia bigelovii A. Gray Artemisia brevifolia Wall. ex DC. Artemisia scoparia Waldst. ex Kit. Artemisia vulgaris L. Asteraceae. 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_28

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