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Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam (Moraceae)

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Southeast Asia

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Artocarpus brasiliensis Gomes; A. integrifolia var. glabra Stokes; A. integrifolius var. heterophylla (Lam.) Pers.; A. jaca Lam.; A. maxima Blanco; Artocarpus nanca Noronha; A. philippensis Lam.; Polyphema jaca (Lam.) Lour.; Sitodium cauliflorum Gaertn.; Saccus heterophyllus (Lam.) Kuntze (POWO 2020; Hassler 2020).

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Devanathan, K., Stalin, A.N. (2020). Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam (Moraceae). In: Franco, F.M. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Southeast Asia. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14116-5_67-1

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