AGROPYRON SPECIES DISTRIBUTED IN THE FLORA OF UZBEKISTAN. .

Аннотация

Agropyron Gaertn. is a group of Eurasian plants belonging to the Poaceae Barnhart family, which occurs naturally in Europe and Asia but is now widespread in North America due to introduction. Species of the genus are usually straw-stemmed and used as fodder plants. According to the data of 2020, 26 species were found on the territory of Uzbekistan, including endemic to the Pamir-Alai and mountainous Central Asia. Many species of the genus Agropyron are accepted as synonyms of species belonging to following genera: Crithopsis Jaub. & Spach, Elymus L., Kengyilia C.Yen & J.L.Yang, Leymus Hochst., Thinopyrum Á.Löve, Vulpia C.C.Gmel., Eremopyrum (Ledeb.) Jaub. & Spach, Pseudoroegneria (Nevski) Á.Löve, Elytrigia Desv., Campeiostachys Drobow, etc. In this article, we performed a comparative analysis of the Agropyron genus distributed in flora of Uzbekistan based on information from literature "Flora of the USSR" (1934), "Flora of Uzbekistan" (1941), "Key to Plants of Central Asia" (1968), "Grasses of the USSR" (1976) and websites, such as GBIF (the Global Biodiversity Information Facility), POWO (Plants of the World Online), COL (The Catalog of Life), The Plant List, planetarium and 3218 herbarium specimens of plants belonging to 35 species that are stored in the National Herbarium of Uzbekistan (TASH).