New and rare adventive plants from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

Abstract

New data on the distribution of miscellaneous alien plants in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are presented. Five species are recorded for the first time from Middle Asia as well: Cerastium nemorale Bieb., Hesperis pycnotricha Borb. et Degen, Viola prionantha Bunge, Rorippa austriaca (Crantz) Bess., Carduus acanthoides L. One species is new to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: Spergularia rubra (L.) J. et С Presl. Two species are found as new to Kyrgyzstan: Bunias orientalis L., Bidens frondosa L. New localities of 2 species, Cardaria draba (L.) Desv. and Ambrosia artemisifolia L., are discovered in Kyrgyzstan.

Taxonomic revision of the Allium filidens group (Amaryllidaceae) in Kyrgyzstan

“…This species was previously misidentified as Allium filidentiforme (Nikitina 1960, p. 30, Lazkov and Sultanova 2011, 2014 or A. filidens (Nikitina 1962, p. 255).…”

“…For these reasons, its detailed distributional data may be largely unreliable. The latest checklist (Lazkov and Sultanova 2014) provides distributional data only by major biogeographic provinces, without mentioning particular mountain ranges or localities. Some contributions Sennikov 2017, Lazkov andTurdumatova 2021) provided lists of precise localities for the least fully known species, which were, however, very few in comparisons to the total number.…”

“…from the foothills in the easternmost part of the Fergana Depression in Kyrgyzstan, which mainly differed from A. filidens by the length of anther filaments (exserted from the perianth, whereas filaments were enclosed in the perianth in A. filidens). This species was accepted by Nikitina (1951), who received this yet unpublished information directly from Vvedensky, and in all subsequent works (Vvedensky 1971, Khassanov 2008, Lazkov and Sultanova 2011, 2014, Khassanov and Yusupov 2022 except for the latest publication in Kyrgyzstan (Lazkov and Turdumatova 2021). Pavlov (1953) described A. valentinae, a rather unusual species from the westernmost extensions of the Transile Range, the Şu-Ile Mts in Kazakhstan, which he compared with A. filidentiforme but distinguished from the latter by its shorter filaments, obtuse tepals and yellow flowers.…”

“…Allium is extraordinarily species‐rich in Central Asia, being represented by 262 species (Khassanov and Yusupov 2022). Kyrgyzstan hosts a large proportion of this diversity; its most recent checklist (Lazkov and Sultanova 2014) listed 87 species. The taxonomic classification of Allium in Central Asia is still far from being complete, especially in regard of the circumscription of sections (Khassanov and Yusupov 2022).…”

Resurrection of Stipa tremula and taxonomy of the high-alpine species from the Stipa purpurea complex (Poaceae, Pooideae)

“…Tian Shan, Pamir, Karakorum, eastern Himalayas, Kun-lun, Qilan-Shan, eastern Tibetan Plateau (Fig. 3 ); Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, north Pakistan, India (Ladakh), China (Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, western and eastern Xizang) ( Pavlov 1956 ; Ovchinnikov and Chukavina 1957 ; Lazkov and Sultanova 2014 ).…”