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  The scientific legacy of Furkat O. Khassanov in the botanical science of Central Asia

  Authors: Reinhard Fritsch, Komiljon Tojibaev, Khabibullo Shomurodov (Author)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.54981/PDCA/vol4_iss1/a1

  License: cc BY 4.0

  Keywords: Central Asia; Uzbekistan; floristics; geobotany; taxonomy; Allium; Astragalus; Iris; endemism; Flora of Uzbekistan

  Abstract The present contribution summarizes the scientific legacy of Furkat O. Khassanov (1959–2024), a leading botanist of Uzbekistan whose work substantially advanced floristics, geobotany, and plant taxonomy in Central Asia. Building on decades of field exploration and herbarium-based studies, he…

  1-13 pp.2025-06-01

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  New identity and neotypification of the mysterious Anethum involucratum (Umbelliferae) from the western Pamir-Alay (Uzbekistan)

  Authors: Michael G. Pimenov (Author)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.54981/PDCA/vol2_iss2/a5

  License: cc BY 4.0

  Keywords: Anethum; Apiaceae; Galagania; Central Asia; Pamir-Alay; typification; Umbelliferae; Uzbekistan

  Abstract Anethum involucratum is the last species of the Umbelliferae in the flora of Uzbekistan which remains taxonomically obscure due to the loss of its type material in Tashkent (TASH) where it should have been stored according to the protologue. A comparative study of descriptions of A. involucratum…

  2023-08-01

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  Vascular flora of the Nuratau Mountains (Uzbekistan): an annotated checklist

  Authors: Natalya Yu. Beshko (Author)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.54981/PDCA/vol4_iss1/a2

  License: cc BY 4.0

  Keywords: alien species; biogeography; checklist; endemic; flora; key biodiversity areas; native species; plant diversity; threatened species

  Abstract The Nuratau Mountains located in Uzbekistan, in the transitional zone between the Central Asian Mountain and the Turanian phytogeographical provinces, are one of the key biodiversity areas within the Mountains of Central Asia Global Biodiversity Hotspot. These medium-altitude semiarid mountains…

  1-322 pp.2025-06-01

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  Genus Eremurus (Asphodelaceae) in the flora of Uzbekistan

  Authors: Dilmurod Makhmudjanov, Inom Juramurodov, Mamura Kurbonalieva, Ziyoviddin Yusupov, Davron Dekhkonov, Tao Deng, Komiljon Sh. Tojibaev, Hang Sun (Author)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.54981/PDCA/vol1_iss2/a4

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  Keywords: cladistic analysis; Central Asia; synopsis; taxonomy; morphology; Ammolirion; Henningia

  Abstract In this study, 13 morphological characters in 32 species of Eremurus (Asphodelaceae) from Uzbekistan were examined and subjected to cladistic analysis. In the consensus tree, species from subgenus Eremurus clustered together, but did not form a distinct clade sister to Henningia. The subrotate…

  82-127 pp.2022-08-01

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  Prominent botanists of Central Asia: Vvedensky Aleksei Ivanovich (1898-1972)

  Authors: Furkat Khassanov, Olga Cherneva, Obidjon Turdiboev, Shokhbozbek Turdiboev, Komiljon Sh. Tojibaev (Author)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.54981/PDCA/vol1_iss2/a1

  License: cc BY 4.0

  Keywords: Allium; Iris; Eremurus; bibliography; Vvedensky; taxonomy; Middle Asia

  Abstract This article honours the memory of the outstanding taxonomist and tireless researcher of the flora of Central Asia, Aleksei Ivanovich Vvedensky, the founder of the most extensive Central Asian herbarium collection, the author of monographic revisions in ‘Flora of the USSR’, the editor and author…

  1-25 pp.2022-08-01

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  Comparative morphological characteristics of the chromosomes of two Rheum species

  Authors: Abdulla Rakhmataliev, Jorabek Toshtemirov, Ziyoviddin Yusupov, Temur Asatulloev, Min He, Li Yongping, Mengmeng Sun (Author)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.54981/PDCA/vol5_iss1/a2

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  Keywords: Rheum maximowiczii; Rheum turkestanicum; karyotype; karyomorphometry; cytogenetics; polyploidy; chromosomes

  Abstract Rheum maximowiczii Losinsk. and Rheum turkestanicum Janisch. are closely related species occurring in the flora of Uzbekistan, yet their cytogenetic characteristics and karyological relationships remain insufficiently documented. In this study, chromosome number, karyotype structure,…

  20-31 pp.2026-09-07

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