Short-winged Bladder-senna / Baibiche Chekey

Short-winged Bladder-senna

Status: VU. One of three very rarely occurring species of this genus in Kyrgyzstan.

Description. Deciduous shrub up to 1 m tall, bark on old branches is gray, one-year-old shoots are white. Leaves are short-petioled, 5-8 cm long, with 3-4 pairs of rounded, sparsely short-pressed hairy leaflets. Flowering shoots with flower clusters are shorter than the leaves. Flowers are yellow, gathered in drooping clusters of 4-8 flowers. Flowering shoots and calyxes are dark-haired. Pods are up to 5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, elliptical, membranous, covered with white scattered pressed hairs. Seeds are brownish-brown, about 5 mm long, round, with a notched side and a depressed dotted surface.

Biological features. Blooms in May-June, fruits in June-July. Propagates by seeds, very rarely vegetatively.

General distribution and in the country. Fergana and Alai mountain ranges (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan).

Habitat. On products of the decay of red chalk sandstones and conglomerates, along stony-gravelly and rocky slopes of gorges in the foothills and lower mountain belt.

Population. No data available.

Limiting factors. Anthropogenic impacts - conducting economic activities and mass collection of flowering plants.

Cultivation. No data available.

Existing conservation measures. Included in the Red Book of the Kyrgyz SSR (1985).

Recommended conservation measures. Monitoring of the population in nature, organizing a botanical reserve in areas with the highest concentrations of populations.

Байбиче чекей

Short-winged Bladder-senna
Colutea brachyptera Sumn
Status: VU. This rare deciduous shrub species is endemic to the Fergana and Alai Mountain Ranges, one of three congeners in the country, ornamental plant. It populates motley sandy and clayey soils at red speckled sandstones and conglomerates, in the piedmont zone. Period of flowering: May - June, fruiting in June - July; propagation is generative and very seldom vegetative. There is no information about number and cultivation. Area of occupancy is declining due to economic development of lands (main limiting factor), mass collection (damaging) of flowering plants. This plant is included in the Red Book of the country in 1985, but the majority of populations are outside any protected territories, thus it is recommended to check current abundance and area and create a botanical wildlife area in territories with concentrated populations.