Dorema microcarpum
Status: VU. Rare endemic species.
Description. Taproot. A perennial herbaceous plant up to 1 - 1.5 m in height, monocarpic, with a single stem. Basal leaves are broadly triangular in shape, 15 - 30 cm long, thrice or four times pinnately dissected, ovate or elongated-lanceolate. Stem leaves are greatly reduced. Umbels on short, bare pedicels 3 - 10 mm long, without involucral bracts or with very short leaves numbering 2 - 3. Petals are yellow. Ovaries are bare, with a cup-shaped, broadly expanded at the edge receptacle. Fruits are bare, 4 - 7 mm long, 3 - 4 mm wide, oval or elongated in shape, strongly compressed from the back, with narrow wing-like marginal ribs.
Biological features. Flowering in May - June; fruiting in June - July. Propagation is by seeds.
Distribution general and in the country. Slopes of the Chatkal, Fergana, and Alai ranges facing the Fergana Valley.
Habitat. Variegated, gypsum-bearing and clay outcrops, gravelly-stony and stony slopes, conglomerates, on steep slopes of dry watercourses with slate shales in the composition of ephemeral and diverse grass gypsophilous vegetation and xerophytic shrubs. 700 - 1800 m above sea level.
Population. Found very limitedly, as single specimens. The species is endangered.
Limiting factors. Anthropogenic impacts.
Cultivation. No information available.
Existing measures. No information available.
Recommended conservation measures. Monitoring of population numbers, introduction into cultivation.
Mayda mёmёluu dorema
Microcarpous Dorema
Dorema microcarpum Korov
Status: VU. This rare large perennial plant is endemic to the mountains surrounding the Fergana Valley. In Kyrgyzstan, this threatened species populates variegated bedrocks, clayey, steep metal and stony slopes in dry gorges, with scanty ephemeral and motley-grass gypsophilous vegetation, at 700-1800 m above sea level. Period of flowering: May - June, fruiting in July - August, propagation is generative (by seeds). The population is insignificant, with single specimens occurring. Limiting factors are anthropogenic. There are no data on cultivation and existing protection for this plant. It is necessary to introduce this species into cultivation and to conserve natural populations.
