False Hooked Fumitory
Status: VU. Endemic species of the Pamir-Alai.
Description. Perennial plant. Stems 20 - 40 cm tall, quite thick and strong. Leaves almost three times pinnately dissected with small elongated lobes; blades wide, segments on petioles, lobes sessile. Inflorescences at the base branched or simple, quite long and dense, flowers are often arranged. Bracts linear-lanceolate, membranous, short. Pedicels 5 mm long, thin, strongly bent when fruiting. Sepals small, 1 mm long, membranous. The corolla about 15 mm long, outer petals without a point, spur short, straight, blunt. Capsules almost pendulous, long, narrow.
Biological features. Blooms and fruits from June to August. Propagation is by seeds.
General distribution and in the country. Pamir-Alai. Alai Ridge, in the valley of the Taldy-Suu River, Sufi-Kurgan, Olgin meadow, between Sufi-Kurgan and Ak-Bosoga, Taldyk Pass; Zaalai Ridge, at the sources of Kyzyl-Suu.
Habitat. On rocky slopes of gravel cliffs, along riverbanks from the mid to upper mountain belt.
Population. No data available.
Limiting factors. No data available.
Cultivation. No data available.
Existing conservation measures. No special conservation measures have been developed.
Recommended conservation measures. Study the population, biology of the species, organize a botanical reserve in areas of maximum species concentration.
False Hooked Fumitory
Corydalis pseudoadunca M. Pop.
Status: VU. This rare perennial species is endemic to the Alai-Pamirs. It is known from the Alai Mountains (northern macroslope: basin of Gultcha River, Taldyk Pass) and the Trans-Alai Mountain Range (Kyzyl-Suu and Altyn-Dara Ravines), and populates stony and metal precipitates with scanty vegetation at river banks, from the mid-montane belt up to river heads. This plant blooms and fruits from June to August; propagation is generative (by seeds). Data on the population in nature, limiting factors, and cultivation are absent. This data is necessary for the development of effective methods for species preservation.
