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Picea smithiana (Wall.) Boiss. Pinaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Picea smithiana (Wall.) Boiss: Abies khutrow (Royle ex Turra) Loudon; Abies morinda (Link) Wender.; Abies smithiana (Wall.) Lindl.; Picea khutrow (Royle ex Turra) Carrière; Picea morinda Link; Picea khutrow Royle ex Turra; Pinus morinda Gordon & Glend.; Pinus pendula Griff.; Pinus smithiana Wall

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  1. Nobel College, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Devi K. Thapa-Magar

  2. Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Khum B. Thapa-Magar

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  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 Botany, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Wahid Hussain

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Thapa-Magar, D.K., Thapa-Magar, K.B., Kunwar, R.M., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Hussain, W. (2021). Picea smithiana (Wall.) Boiss. Pinaceae. 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_184

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