Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia – botanical, ethnobotanical and commercial observations made in Yemen 1762-1763

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Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia – botanical, ethnobotanical and commercial observations made in Yemen 1762-1763. / Friis, Ib.

I: Archives of Natural History, Bind 41, Nr. 1, 2015, s. 101-112.

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Friis, I 2015, 'Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia – botanical, ethnobotanical and commercial observations made in Yemen 1762-1763', Archives of Natural History, bind 41, nr. 1, s. 101-112. https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2015.0283

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Friis, I. (2015). Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia – botanical, ethnobotanical and commercial observations made in Yemen 1762-1763. Archives of Natural History, 41(1), 101-112. https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2015.0283

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Friis I. Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia – botanical, ethnobotanical and commercial observations made in Yemen 1762-1763. Archives of Natural History. 2015;41(1):101-112. https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2015.0283

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Friis, Ib. / Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia – botanical, ethnobotanical and commercial observations made in Yemen 1762-1763. I: Archives of Natural History. 2015 ; Bind 41, Nr. 1. s. 101-112.

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