The Medicinal Plants of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan

Description: Herbaceous perennial with thin, branched rhizomes. Stems few or solitary, usually 25–50 cm tall, grayish with long, entangled, white hairs, often with short leafy branches in mid and upper leaf axils. Leaves bipinnatisect, usually oblong, green or grayish-green, more or less densely hairy; leaves of sterile shoots up to 25 cm long, long-petiolate; lower stem leaves 7–20 cm long, petiolate to subsessile; upper leaves sessile, usually 1–6 cm long. Inflorescences capitula arranged in loose, convex corymbs of unequal heights. Involucre cup-shaped; involucral bracts oviform, pale yellowish-green. Ray flower ligules pink, very rarely white. Fruits oblong, wedge-shaped achenes, truncated at the apex.

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Authors and Affiliations

1. School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, 20 Ag. Extension Way, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA

   David E. Zaurov

2. Tashkent State Agrarian University, Tashkent-140, Tashkent, 100140, The Republic of Uzbekistan

   Igor V. Belolipov

3. The Specialized Center for Cardiology, 4 Murtozoev St., Tashkent, 100052, The Republic of Uzbekistan

   Anvar G. Kurmukov

4. Kyrgyz Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Kyrgyzstan, 1A Akhunbabaev St., Bishkek, 720064, The Kyrgyz Republic

   Ishenbay S. Sodombekov

5. Biology and Soil Science Institute of the National Academy of Science of Kyrgyzstan, 265 Chuy St., Bishkek, 720071, The Kyrgyz Republic

   Anarbek A. Akimaliev

6. College of Liberal Arts, School of Environmental Design, Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, Temple University, 580 Meetinghouse Rd., Ambler, PA, 19002, USA

   Sasha W. Eisenman

Editors and Affiliations

1. College of Liberal Arts, School of Environmental Design, Temple University, 580 Meetinghouse Rd, Ambler, 19122, Pennsylvania, USA

   Sasha W. Eisenman

2. School of Enviro and Biological Sciences, Dept. of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, 59 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, 08901, New Jersey, USA

   David E. Zaurov

3. School of Enviro and Biological Sciences, Dept of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 08901, New Jersey, USA

   Lena Struwe

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