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Ambrosia arborescens Mill. Ambrosia artemisioides Meyen & Walp. ex Meyen Ambrosia cumanensis Kunth Asteraceae

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Ambrosia arborescens Mill: Ambrosia artemisioides Willd.; Ambrosia frutescens Lam.; Ambrosia fruticosa Medik.; Franseria artemisioides Willd.; Franseria conwayi Rusby; Gaertneria artemisioides (Willd.) Kuntze; Xanthium artemisioides (Willd.) Delpino; Xanthium fruticosum L. f.

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  1. Herbario Nacionál de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  2. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana & Rainer W. Bussmann

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  4. Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, USACH, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Javier Echeverría

  5. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Carolina Romero

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Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Bussmann, R.W., Echeverría, J., Romero, C. (2020). Ambrosia arborescens Mill. Ambrosia artemisioides Meyen & Walp. ex Meyen Ambrosia cumanensis Kunth Asteraceae. In: Paniagua-Zambrana, N., Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Andes. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77093-2_21-1

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