Comparative Pharmacognosy of Medicinally Important Indian Vitex Species
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چکیده
Vitex genera is reputed for their medicinal properties. Of the 12 species reported to be present in Indian only 8 species are medicinally useful. Of these six species were colled and their pharmacognostic characters were studied and described.
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