Research letterPreliminary study of ethnobotany in xishuang banna, people's republic of china☆
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This article was presented at the “Workshop on Ecology and Rural Development” held at Yunnan Province, China, on September 25–October 12, 1982, jointly sponsored by the East-West Centre for Environment and Policy Institute, Hawaii, and Ministry of Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protection, People's Republic of China.