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Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre Persicaria barbata (L.) H. Hara Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don) H. Gross Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Spach Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) H. Gross Polygonaceae

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Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre: Persicaria amphibia var. emersa (Michx.) J. C. Hickman, Persicaria amphibia var. stipulacea (N. Coleman) H. Hara, Persicaria coccinea (Muhl. ex Willd.) Greene, Persicaria hartwrightii (A. Gray) Greene, Persicaria muhlenbergii (Meisn.) Small, Polygonum amphibium L., Polygonum amphibium ssp. laevimarginatum Hultén, Polygonum amphibium var. emersum Michx., Polygonum amphibium var. natans Michx., Polygonum amphibium var. stipulaceum N. Coleman, Polygonum coccineum Muhl. ex Willd., Polygonum coccineum var. pratincola (Greene) Stanford, Polygonum coccineum var. rigidulum (E. Sheld.) Stanford, Polygonum emersum (Michx.) Britton, Polygonum hartwrightii A. Gray, Polygonum natans Eaton

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  1. Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Khadka B. Bhandari

  2. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, USA

    Durga Kutal

  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. Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Hammad Ahmad Jan

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

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Bhandari, K.B., Kutal, D., Kunwar, R.M., Jan, H.A., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre Persicaria barbata (L.) H. Hara Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don) H. Gross Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Spach Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) H. Gross Polygonaceae. 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_180

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