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Plukenetia carolis-vegae (Euphorbiaceae) – A New Useful Species from Northern Peru

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the tireless help of Ing. Carlos Vega Ocaña, president of INBIAPAERU and president of the regional sacha inchi development council, as well as the collaboration of Ing. Adriano Dávila Silva and Ing. Reinaldo Arista of the PRONAMACHCS Regional Office Amazonas and the local office Rodríguez de Mendoza province for their constant help with the collection of material. We also wish to thank Mr. Rodriguez, a respected farmer in Monte Allegre, for sharing his wealth of knowledge and facilitating the collection of samples. We thank Barbara Alongi for the line drawings.

Most of all, we want to express our sincere gratitude to the people of Northern Peru for sharing their ethnobotanical knowledge.

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  1. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box 299, Saint Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  2. Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, Apdo. Postal 10077 correo central, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Paniagua Zambrana

  3. Instituto para el Desarrollo Local Sostenible y la Conservación Biológica y Cultural Andino- Amazónica, San Martín 375, Trujillo, Perú

    Carolina Téllez

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Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua Zambrana, N. & Téllez, C. Plukenetia carolis-vegae (Euphorbiaceae) – A New Useful Species from Northern Peru. Econ Bot 67, 387–392 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-013-9247-2

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