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Ethnobotany of the Turkana: Use of plants by a pastoral people and their livestock in Kenya

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Morgan, W.T.W. Ethnobotany of the Turkana: Use of plants by a pastoral people and their livestock in Kenya. Econ Bot 35, 96–130 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02859220

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