Books in the Plants of Central Asia series

This volume pertains solely to the family Chenopodiaceae, which plays a leading role in the formation of the vegetal cover of the deserts of Central Asia and represents one of the most abundant constituents of its flora.

This volume covers the family Gramineae - one of the largest families in Central Asian flora, whose members play a leading role in the formation of its plant cover and represent the characteristic species of vast arid, hill and desert steppes.

With text updated for this English edition, the book describes families Verbeaneae, Labiatae, Solanaceae and Scrophulariceae which contain several interesting endemic genera and species that are important for understanding the developmental history of Central Asian flora.

Covers families Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae and up to family Butomaceae of monocotyledons in Angiospermae. Contains a list of references of the flora in Central Asia, supplementing the bibliography given in Volume 1.

This volume of the English translation of the series prepared by the Komarov Botanical Institute covers Altai, Khangai and Kentei ranges in the north, Greater Khingan Range in the east, Pamir in the west, the Great Wall in the Southeast and the Himalayas in the south.

Contains the treatment of one of the most important and the largest of the angiosperm families of this region - Leguminosae - with the exception of two of its largest and taxonomically complex genera - Astragalus and Oxytropis - which are dealt with in volume 8B