Middle Asian Pear Status: EN. The species is little-known and narrowly localized, endemic to the Western Tien Shan. The taxonomic position of the species is debatable. It is of great importance for breeding and developing resistant varieties of pears that are immune to fungal diseases and damage from fruit flies in high-yielding southern varieties.
Schrenk’s False Spirea Status: CR B2ab(iii). Endemic, ornamental, and rare plant with a decreasing population. A representative of a relict genus.
Olga’s Sorbaria Status: CR B2ab(iii). A rare narrow-endemic species of the Alai Mountain Range. Decorative.
Tien Shan Sibiraea Status: CR. An endemic, decorative, and rare northern Tien Shan plant.
Rhodiola litwinowii Status: LC. A mosaic-distributed species, intensively used in agriculture.
Iskandera Alai Status: VU. A very rare narrow endemic species. There is only one species of this genus in the republic.
Turkestan fumitory Status: Category ENBlab(iii,iv). A representative of the monotypic [60, 25] genus (a unique element of the gene pool), threatened with extinction due to narrow endemism in an area with increasing anthropogenic pressure.
False Hooked Fumitory Status: VU. Endemic species of the Pamir-Alai.
Kashgarian Barberry Status: VU. Rare species.
Kostychev’s Pascueflower Status: VU. A narrowly endemic and very beautiful plant, deserving attention for cultivation.
Obtusilobous Windflower Status: VU. The westernmost boundary of its range in Kyrgyzstan is located in the Central Tien Shan.
Knorring’s Larkspur Status: VU. A rare ornamental relic species with a disjunctive range, endemic to Kyrgyzstan.
Kolyuchelistnik kachimovidny Status: VU. A species with a rapidly reducing range. The roots of this species contain up to 30% steroid compounds - saponins, which are used in perfumery, textile, food industries, and in the production of building materials.
Susamyr Catchfly Status: EN. A rare species found in small numbers and in a limited area, which can easily disappear under the influence of anthropogenic factors.
Minkwitz’s Bastard Toad-Flax Status: CR. Subendemic. An extremely rare relict plant that is endangered and has great scientific significance. One of four species found in Kyrgyzstan.
Iridodictyum Kolpakovski Status: VU. A species with a reducing range and population. It deserves attention as an early-flowering plant for squares and parks that does not require watering.
Orchid-like Juno Status: VU. Endemic to the Western and Northern Tien Shan.
Zenaida’s Tulip Status: VU. A narrowly endemic species of the Kyrgyz Ridge, at risk of rapidly disappearing due to limited habitat area.
Quadrifolious Tulip Status: VU. Endemic to the Inner Tien Shan.
Pink Tulip Status: EN. A narrowly endemic species of the foothills of the Turkestan Range, sharply declining in numbers. The species is on the brink of extinction; its further existence is impossible without urgent conservation measures.
Broad-stamened Tulip Status: VU. A narrow endemic of the Alai Ridge.
Ostrovski’s Tulip Status: VU. A narrowly endemic species of the Kyrgyz and Zailiysky ranges. It deserves attention as a highly decorative plant and as a material for breeding.
Korolkov’s Tulip, shiny Status: VU. Endemic to Central Asia, primarily found in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (Western Tien Shan, Pamir-Alai). A rare, highly decorative plant.
Kolpakovski’s Tulip Status: VU. An endemic of the Northern Tien Shan with a decreasing population. An early-flowering tulip, distinguished by the beauty of its flower.
Kaufmann’s Tulip Status: VU. An endemic species of the Western Tien Shan. Highly decorative: the most beautiful, early-flowering tulip of Kyrgyzstan. Characterized by high intraspecific variability. Widely used in breeding.
Greig’s Tulip / Тюльпан Греига, тюльпан пестролистный Status: EN. A species with declining numbers and shrinking range. Central Asian endemic. A plant of high ornamental value, it is of exceptional importance for green construction, floriculture, and the breeding of new varieties of cultivated tulips.
Chatkal Yellow Tulip Status: VU. An endemic species of the Chatkal Ridge with a decreasing population. The most beautiful of the yellow-flowered tulips in Kyrgyzstan. Promising for cultivation.
Related Tulip Status: VU. Endemic species of the northern Pamir-Alai. The species is at risk of complete extinction.
Eduard’s Imperial Crown Status: EN B1ab(i,ii,iv,v). In Kyrgyzstan - the only one of three very locally distributed species of the genus, at the northern limit of distribution, detached from the main range. As a highly decorative species with a decreasing range and population due to anthropogenic factors, it is included in several regional red books.
Semenov’s Onion Status: VU. Endemic to the Inner Tien Shan.
Pskem Onion Status: EN. A very rare species with a shrinking range in the Western Tien Shan. Description. A perennial plant reaching 40 - 80 cm in height. Bulbs are found in groups on a short rhizome, 4 - 5 cm thick, covered externally with black-brown and internally with red-brown tunics. The stem is swollen. Leaves are tubular, cylindrical, in number 3, shorter than the stem. The umbel is spherical, with the spathe nearly equal to the umbel. Flowers are white, about 6 mm long. It differs
Twelve-dentate Onion Status: VU. A narrowly endemic species of the Chatkal Ridge. Description. A perennial herbaceous bulbous plant, geophyte, xeromesophyte. Bulbs are solitary, round, 8-10 (12) mm in diameter, with gray paper-like tunics. Bulbils are solitary, smooth. Stems are 60 - 80 cm tall, 1.5 - 5 mm in diameter, ribbed, covered at the base with leaf sheaths. There are 2 leaves, flat, 2.5 - 6 mm wide, rough-edged. The inflorescence is hemispherical or nearly round, dense, multi-flowered.
Eremurus Zenaidae Status: VU. Endemic to the lower and middle belts of the Fergana and Alai mountain ranges.
Eremurus zoae Status: VU. A narrowly endemic species of the Kyrgyz Range.
Regel’s Eminium Status: VU. A rare endemic species of the Western Tien Shan.
Semenov’s Fir-tree Status: VU. A relic endemic of the Western Tien Shan. Ornamental.
Tien Shan Scutiger Scutiger tianschanicus A. Bond. Status: CR. Very rare, almost endemic species.
Dog Stinkhorn Mutinus caninus (Huds. ex Pers.) Fr. Status: EN. A decorative species, used in folk medicine.
Doubled Netted Stinkhorn Dictyophora duplicata (Bosc.) E. Fisch Status: EN. Rare species. The only representative of the genus Dictyophora in the CIS territory. Used in traditional medicine.
Tapered Net-cap (Dictyocephalus attenuatus (Peck) Long et Plunkett). Status: VU. A very rare Paleogene relic. The only species of the genus Dictyocephalus in the world.
In Kyrgyzstan, approximately 2100 species of mushrooms are currently known. They are conditionally divided into micromycetes and macromycetes. Macromycetes are a group of higher fungi that have large fruiting bodies of various shapes, represented by 286 species.