New records to the flora of Uzbekistan (Middle Asia)

The Republic of Uzbekistan is a Central Asian country with rich native flora. The territory belongs to the Irano-Turanian region in the Ancient Mediterranean floristic subkingdom of Holarctic. The flora of Uzbekistan accounts over 4300 species of vascular plants including large numbers of endemic species, but the check-list is still incomplete. Presented here ten new records to the flora of Uzbekistan, were found during the field studies and examination of herbarium collections preserved at TASH

A new species of Ranunculus (Ranunculaceae) from Western Pamir-Alay, Uzbekistan

New data on the phylogeny of four rare and endemic species of RanunculusL. (sect. RanunculastrumDC.) of western Pamir-Alai, one of which is new to science, have been obtained. Ranunculus tojibaeviisp. nov., from the Baysuntau Mountains, Western Hissar Range of Uzbekistan, is described. The new species is closely related to R. botschantzeviiOvcz., R. convexiusculusKovalevsk. and R. alpigenusKom., but differs in the blade of the radical leaves, which is rounded-reniform, segments 3–5-dissected, each 2–5-partite with elongated, rounded apical lobes. A phylogenetic analysis, using both the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and cpDNA (matK,rbcL,trnL-trnF), was informative in placing R. tojibaevii in context with its most closely-related species. Discussion on the geographic distribution, updated identification key, a detailed description, insights about its habitat and illustrations are provided

Diversity and distribution of the genus Scrophularia L. (Scrophulariaceae) in Uzbekistan

This article presents a new checklist of Scrophularia in Uzbekistan. The synopsis includes 21 species; one of them is national endemic, and seven species were newly recorded for Uzbekistan as a result of field collecting missions, studies, and examination of Tashkent (TASH), St.-Petersburg (LE), Almaty (AA), and Moscow (MW) herbarium collections. The geographical distribution of Scrophularia in Uzbekistan was mapped and analyzed. The identification key, a table of comparative diagnostic characters, nomenclatural types, and ecological data are provided. (C) 2019 National Science Museum of Korea (NSMK) and Korea National Arboretum (KNA), Publishing Services by Elsevier.Peer reviewe

Three new records of Lamiaceae from China and Uzbekistan

Zhao, Yue, Chi, Jian-Cai, Chen, Ya-Ping, Liang, Cun-Zhu, Turginov, Orzimat T., Pulatov, Sardor O., Rakhmatov, Abdurashid A., Aromov, Tolmas B., Xiang, Chun-Lei (2022): Three new records of Lamiaceae from China and Uzbekistan. Phytotaxa 531 (2): 111-111, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.531.2.

Museomics in Lamiaceae: Resolving the taxonomic mystery of Pseudomarrubium.

Funding Information: The authors thank the staff of the following herbaria for providing access to museum specimens: BASU, K, KUN, LE, MW, TASH; thanks are also extended to Dr. Chonour Mahmoudi for her help in providing leaf material. We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China to CLX (Nos. 32161143015, 31872648), International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (070GJHZ202211FN), the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province (202001AS070016), the open research project of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the “Ten Thousand Talents Program of Yunnan” (Top-notch Young Talents Project, No. YNWR-QNBJ-2018–279) to CLX, and the Iran National Science Foundation to YS (4001651). The work of MSN was carried out as part of the Scientific Project of the State Order of the Government of Russian Federation to Lomonosov Moscow State University No. 121032500082-2. Publisher Copyright: © 2023The monotypic genus Pseudomarrubium is perhaps the most poorly understood taxon within the subfamily Lamioideae (Lamiaceae). While advances in molecular phylogenetics have clarified the phylogeny and taxonomy of Lamioideae, the systematic placement of Pseudomarrubium remains unclear, as it has never been tested using molecular phylogenetic analyses due to an inaccessibility of plant material. In this study, we used high-throughput next-generation sequencing to infer the systematic placement of Pseudomarrubium based on old herbarium collections as well as silica gel-dried leaves. Phylogenomic analyses demonstrate that Pseudomarrubium is a member of tribe Phlomideae and nested within Phlomoides, and a new combination, Phlomoides eremostachydioides, is proposed. The study highlights that herbarium-preserved samples, even very old ones, are invaluable resources that can be used to generate reliable genome-scale data and be used for molecular phylogenetic inquiries.Peer reviewe

Contribution to the flora of Asian and European countries : new national and regional vascular plant records, 2

The paper presents new records for 20 vascular plant species from eight Asian and two European countries. Five taxa (Artemisia campestris, Artemisia tanacetifolia, Delphinium sajanense, Diarthron vasiculosum var. undulatum, Epilobium adenocaulon) are reported from Kazakhstan, four (Deyeuxia yanyuanensis, Poa arnoldii, Stipa gracilis, Stipa macroglossa subsp. kazachstanica) from China, three (Nepeta pamirensis, Silene bucharica, Scrophularia pamiro-alaica) from Uzbekistan, two (Epilobium nervosum, Stellaria zolotukhinii) from Mongolia, two (Oenothera deflexa, Scirpus georgianus) from Poland, one (Coronopus didymus) from Tajikistan, one (Orobanche rumseiana) from Italy, one (Stipa macroglossa subsp. kazachstanica) from Kyrgyzstan, one (Poa polozhiae) from Russia, and one (Agrostis rupestris) from Azerbaijan. All of these taxa are new to the floras of listed Asian and European countries or its regions (as it is in the case of China or Russia). Four of the presented taxa (Coronopus didymus, Epilobium adenocaulon, Oenothera deflexa and Scirpus georgianus) are regarded as alien to the studied areas, whereas the other 16 are new native elements to the flora of the countries. For each species synonyms, general distribution, habitat preferences, taxonomy with remarks on recognition and differentiation of the species from the most similar occurring in a given country, as well as a list of localities recorded (often far from the previously known areas) are presented. In the case of Orobanche rumseiana, a new variety O. rumseiana var. sarda R. Piwowarczyk and A. Pujadas is described and illustrated