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Ethnobotancal studies in the villages of the district of Ilica (province erzurum), Turkey

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An ethnobotanical survey was made of the villages of the Ilica District, Erzurum Province, Turkey. The authors interviewed 130 people in 60 villages. The information so obtained was classified according to the use of plants for food, fuel, dye, and construction materials, as well as for miscellaneous uses. All in all, this study revealed 60 plant taxa that were useful to the villagers of this district.

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  1. Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, Atatürk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey

    Ufuk Özgen & Yusuf Kaya

  2. Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Ankara University, Tandoğan, 06100, Ankara, Turkey

    Maksut Co§kun

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Özgen, U., Kaya, Y. & Co§kun, M. Ethnobotancal studies in the villages of the district of Ilica (province erzurum), Turkey. Econ Bot 58, 691–696 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2004)058[0691:ESITVO]2.0.CO;2

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