Chesneya Woolly / Tuktuk Coin / Kostyczewia, Pilose Chesneya

Chesneya villosa

Status: EN. One of the three very rarely encountered species of this genus in Kyrgyzstan.

Description. A perennial herbaceous plant with hairy and woolly characteristics. The roots are taproots, strong, and the stems are creeping. The leaves have stipules. The leaflets are pinnate, three-paired, obovate or broadly triangular. The flower stalks are single-colored. The corolla is red. The pods are elongated.

Biological Features. Flowers in July, fruits in August. Propagates by seeds. General distribution in the country. Western part of the Issyk-Kul basin.

Habitat. Desert and semi-desert, stony foothill plain.

Population. Extremely limited, the species is endangered. Found singly within its range.

Limiting Factors. Anthropogenic impact. Grazing in the spring period. Many seeds die during drought.

Cultivation. No information available.

Conservation Measures - Existing. Included in the Red Book of the Kyrgyz SSR (1985).

Conservation Measures - Recommended. Monitoring of population numbers, introduction into cultivation at the Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Tuktuu tyinychyk

Kostyczewia, Pilose Chesneya
Chesneya villosa (Boriss.) R. Kash. et R. Vinogradova (Chesniella villosa
(Boriss.), Kostyczewia villosa Korsh. (Boriss.))
Status: EN. It is a narrowly distributed species, the rarest among four congeners, endemic to Kyrgyzstan. These perennial herbaceous plants occur as single specimens in desert and semi-desert stony piedmont plains in the western part of the Issyk-Kul Hollow only. It flowers in July and fruits in August; propagation is generative (by seeds). The population is critically insignificant. Information about cultivation is absent. Limiting factors: anthropogenic influence (cattle pasturage in the spring period) and weak reproduction (loss of seedlings in cases of drought). This plant is included in the Red Book of the Republic, but its areas of occupancy are still outside the territories of any protected areas. Monitoring of populations and introduction into cultivation in the Bishkek Botanical Garden are recommended.