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Asystasia gangetica (L.) T. Anderson Acanthaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa

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Asystasia gangetica (L.) T. Anderson: Asystasia bojeriana Nees, Asystasia comorensis Nees, Asystasia comorensis var. humilis Nees, Asystasia coromandeliana Burkill & C.B. Clarke, Asystasia coromandeliana Nees, Justicia gangetica L., Ruellia zeylanica Roxb.

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Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Njoroge, G.N. (2020). Asystasia gangetica (L.) T. Anderson Acanthaceae. In: Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77086-4_19-1

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