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Women in the first three centuries of formal botany in southern Africa

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Figueiredo, E., Smith, G.F. (2021): Women in the first three centuries of formal botany in southern Africa. Blumea 66 (3): 275-307, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2021.66.03.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2021.66.03.10

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