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Cedrus deodara (Roxb. ex D. Don) G. Don Pinaceae

Ethnobotany of the Himalayas

Part of the book series: Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions ((ETMORE))

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Cedrus deodara (Roxb. ex D. Don) G. Don: Abies deodara (Roxb. ex D. Don) Lindl.; Cedrus deodara f. argentea (J. Nelson) Beissn.; Cedrus deodara f. aurea (J. Nelson) Rehder; Cedrus deodara f. pendula Beissn.; Cedrus deodara f. robusta (C. Lawson) Beissn.; Cedrus deodara var. argentea J. Nelson; Cedrus deodara var. aurea J. Nelson; Cedrus deodara var. compacta Carrière; Cedrus deodara var. fastigiata Carrière; Cedrus deodara var. flava Carrière; Cedrus deodara var. tristis Carrière; Cedrus deodara var. variegata Carrière; Cedrus indica Chambray; Cedrus libani subsp. deodora (Roxb. ex D. Don) P. D. Sell; Cedrus libani var. deodara (Roxb. ex D. Don) Hook. f.; Larix deodara (Roxb. ex D.Don) K. Koch; Pinus deodara Roxb.; Pinus deodara Roxb. ex D.Don; Pinus deodara var. robusta C. Lawson

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  1. Molecular Biotechnology Unit, Faculty of Science, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Lalitpur, Nepal

    Ram C. Poudel

  2. Islamia College Peshawar, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

    Hammand Ahmad Jan

  3. Department of Botany, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Wahid Hussain

  4. Department of Environment Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan

    Mehmood Arshad Abbasi

  5. Cultural Geography, Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ripu M. Kunwar

  6. Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Ripu M. Kunwar

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  8. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Poudel, R.C., Jan, H.A., Hussain, W., Abbasi, M.A., Kunwar, R.M., Bussmann, R.W. (2021). Cedrus deodara (Roxb. ex D. Don) G. Don Pinaceae. In: Kunwar, R., Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Himalayas. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45597-2_51-1

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