Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1982 |
Authors: | Austin |
Journal: | Economic Botany |
Volume: | 36 |
Pagination: | 265-269 |
Keywords: | Asia, dispersal, GS, medicinal plant, Operculina |
Abstract: | Medicinal uses of Operculina turpethum by several groups of people are described, and linguistic evidence is used in connection with medicinal philosophies to reconstruct historic dispersal routes of the plants. |
Alternate Journal: | Econ. Bot. |