Flora of Central Asia

The onion (Allium cepa L.Tooltip Carl Linnaeus, from Latin cepa), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion which was classified as a separate species until 2011. The onion's close relatives include garlic, scallion, leek, and chives. The genus contains several other species cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion Allium fistulosum, the tree onion Allium × proliferum, and the Canada onion Allium canadense. The name wild onion is applied to a

Tulipa praestans is a species of tulip native to the mountains of Tajikistan. Many well known cultivars have been formed from the original plant.

Allium iliense is a species of wild onion native to southeastern Kazakhstan. Living in sandy areas, its loose inflorescence can detach when ripe and roll in the wind, spreading seeds much further in the manner of a tumbleweed.

Allium azutavicum is a rare plant species endemic to Kazakhstan.

Tulipa regelii, the plicate tulip or Regel's tulip, is a species of tulip native to southeast Kazakhstan. Rare, growing only in certain dry, rocky areas in the Chu-Ili Range, a northern subrange of the Tian Shan range, it is a very distinctive species with bizarre plicate leaves, usually only one, occasionally two. The species was first formally named by Russian botanist and geographer Andrej Nikolaevich Krasnov. It flowers in April.

Allium kujukense is a species of onion in the genus Allium. This species is in the family Amaryllidaceae and is endemic all over South-East Kazakhstan. This species has a bulbous geophyte.

Spiraeanthus is a monotypic genus of shrub in the rose family containing the single species Spiraeanthus schrenkianus. It is native to Kazakhstan and possibly Kyrgyzstan. It is a resident of low parts of Karatau Mountains and gravely Betpak-Dala deserts. The genus name comes from Latin: spiraea and Greek: ανθος- flower. This is a shrub covered in fernlike foliage made up of fronds of small leaflets. At the ends of the erect branches of this spreading bush are inflorescences of rose spiraealike flowers. It is a relict of the Eocene and the closest relative of Chamaebatiaria. This species is

Cornus darvasica is a species of plant in the family Cornaceae that is endemic to Tajikistan.

Cancriniella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. It contains only one known species Cancriniella krascheninnikovii, endemic to Kazakhstan.

Autumnalia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. It is endemic to Uzbekistan.

Ajuga turkestanica is a herbaceous flowering plant native to Tadzhikistan. It was first described in 1894.

The hybrid cultivar Ulmus 'Androssowii' R. Kam. (or 'Androsowii'), an elm of southern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan sometimes referred to in old travel books as 'Turkestan Elm' or as 'karagach' [:black tree, = elm], its local name, is probably an artificial hybrid. According to Lozina-Lozinskaia the tree is unknown in the wild in Uzbekistan, and apparently arose from a crossing of U. densa var. bubyriana Litv. (now Ulmus minor 'Umbraculifera'), which it resembles (see the disputed species Ulmus densa), and the Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila. It is sometimes listed as Ulmus × androssowii

Iris graeberiana is a species in the genus Iris, in the subgenus of Scorpiris. It is a bulbous perennial.

Eversmannia botschantzevii is a plant in the genus Eversmannia that is native to Uzbekistan.

Cyperus soongoricus is a species of sedge that is native to eastern parts of Kazakhstan.

Allium macrostylum is a Central Asian species of wild onion native to the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan. It is a bulb-forming perennial herb up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are flat, up to 15 mm wide. Umbel is spherical, with lilac-colored flowers.

Allium chodsha-bakirganicum is a plant species endemic to Kyrgyzstan.

Typha turcomanica is a plant species native to Turkmenistan. The species grows in freshwater marshes.

Sphaerosciadium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. The species of this genus are found in Uzbekistan. Species: Sphaerosciadium denaense (Schischk.) Pimenov & Kljuykov

Mentha darvasica is a mint species within the genus Mentha, native to Darvaz, Tajikistan. The species was recorded by Russian botanist Antonina Borissova in 1954.

Ledebouriella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It only contains one known species, Ledebouriella multiflora (Ledeb.) H.Wolff. It is native to Kazakhstan in Central Asia. The genus name of Ledebouriella is in honour of Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786–1851), a German-Estonian botanist. The Latin specific epithet of multiflora means multiple flowers. Both genus and species were first described and published in H.G.A.Engler (editor.), Das Pflanzenreich, IV, Vol.228 (Edition 43) on page 191 in 1910.

Karatavia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It has only one species, Karatavia kultiassovii, native to Kazakhstan.

Eremoblastus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Eremoblastus caspicus, an annual native to Kazakhstan.

Catenulina is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Catenulina hedysaroides, which is endemic to Tajikistan.

Aquilegia karatavica is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to Kazakhstan.

Typha varsobica is a plant species native to Republic of Tajikistan. The species grows in freshwater marshes.

Tianschaniella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae. It contains a single species, Tianschaniella umbellulifera, which is endemic to Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia.

Rhammatophyllum pachyrhizum is a plant species native to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Rhammatophyllum pachyrhizum is a subshrub up to 30 cm (12 in) tall. Its leaves are narrow and thread-like, growing up to 7 cm (3 in) long, but only 0.5 (0.02 in) mm wide. Its flowers are creamy white.

Kafirnigania is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It has only one species, Kafirnigania hissarica. Its native range is Central Asia.

Iris zaprjagajevii (sometimes misspelled zaprjagajewii,) is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus Scorpiris. It is a bulbous perennial from Central Asia. It has greyish-green leaves, short stem and white flowers with a yellow crest.