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Pleione humilis (Sm.) D. Don. Orchidaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

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Pleione humilis (Sm.) D. Don.: Coelogyne humilis (Sm.) Lindl., Coelogyne humilis var. albata Rchb. f., Coelogyne humilis var. tricolor Rchb. f., Epidendrum humile Sm., Pleione diantha Schltr., Pleione humilis var. adnata Pfitzer, Pleione humilis var. pulchella E.W. Cooper, Pleione humilis var. purpurascens Pfitzer

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Prakash Bhattarai

  2. Department of Biogeography, BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Yagya Adhikari

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

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  4. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal, 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

  6. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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  1. Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ripu Kunwar

  2. Center for Plant Sciences & Biodiversity, University of Swat, Pakistan, Udigram, Pakistan

    Hassan Sher

  3. Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Bhattarai, P., Adhikari, Y., Kunwar, R.M., Bussmann, R.W. (2021). Pleione humilis (Sm.) D. Don. Orchidaceae. In: Kunwar, R., 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_190-1

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