Eugenia’s Bell-flower
Status: VU. Endemic to the Western Tien Shan (Talas and Fergana Ranges). A decorative, beautiful flowering plant.
Description. Perennial herbaceous plant. It has a woody, multi-headed, and branched rhizome, equipped with numerous short gray shoots covered with short scale-like remnants of dead leaf petioles, forming loose rosettes of leaves, some of which produce flowering stems. Stems are 10 - 15 cm tall, simple, thin, thread-like, slightly exceeding the basal leaves and leaves of sterile shoots, leafy, single-flowered, and less frequently two-colored. Lower leaves are rosette-like, long, with elongated thin petioles (5)8 - 10 cm long; leaf blades are narrow-lanceolate, tapered at both ends, sharp. They are almost twice shorter than the thread-like petioles, glabrous, thin, almost entire-edged, indistinctly serrated; stem leaves are linear-lanceolate, alternate, and sessile. Flowers are 1.5 cm long, erect or drooping, solitary. The calyx is inversely conical, without appendages, glabrous, five-toothed; the teeth are narrow-linear, somewhat shorter than the corolla but several times longer than the tube. The corolla is blue, narrowly bell-shaped, shallowly divided into sharp triangular lobes. The fruit is an inversely conical capsule, short, rounded at the end, opening with holes at the base. Seeds are numerous.
Biological features. Flowers from V-VIII; fruits from VI-IX. Propagation is by seeds only.
General distribution and in the country. Talas and Fergana Ranges.
Habitat. In the crevices of marble rocks, in the subalpine and middle mountain belts. Population. Very limited.
Limiting factors. Economic development of territories.
Cultivation. Information is absent.
Existing conservation measures. No special conservation measures are in place.
Recommended conservation measures. Clarification of the species population, complete protection, and designation of protected areas.
Eugenia’s Bell-flower
Campanula eugeniae Fed
Status: VU. This ornamental perennial plant is endemic to Western Tien Shan, mosaic-distributed and the rarest of six congeners in Kyrgyzstan. The species occurs in the Talas and Fergana Mountain Ranges and populates clefts in marble rocks in mid-montane and subalpine belts. Period of flowering: May - August, fruiting in June - September; propagation is generative (by seeds) only. The number in nature is limited; information on cultivation is absent; at present time it is out of any protection. Land development is the limiting factor. It is recommended to identify the areas of occupancy and create botanical wildlife areas for the species’ conservation.
