Plants of Central Asia - Plant Collection from China and Mongolia, Vol. 2: Chenopodiaceae PDF

INTRODUCTION

The present, second, volume of Plants of Central Asia is wholly devoted to the family Chenopodiaceae. Among higher plants of Central Asia, this family enjoys a particularly important status and is of the utmost interest from the viewpoint of phytogeography and the evolution of flora.

Firstly, Chenopodiaceae is among the five largest families of the Central Asian flora. In Central Asia, outside the (former) USSR alone (covered in this publication), this family comprises 37 genera and 166 species. For the Central Asian territory as a whole, i.e., including the Soviet part of Central Asia, the family comprises 43 genera and 221 species. The most common genera are: Salsola 23 species, Chenopodium 18 species, Suaeda 17 species and Atriplex 16 species.

Author: V I Grubov