Fungi and higher plants
Orchid-like Juno / Araladay Juno / Juno Orchid
Orchid-like Juno Status: VU. Endemic to the Western and Northern Tien Shan.
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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.
Kyrgyz hunters distinguished 13 species of birds of prey — the gyrfalcon: baybaktuu shunkar — gyrfalcon with noticeable hairs on its legs, kuiko shunkar (this is a very valuable bird — in ancient times, the winner of a competition was gifted 9 birds of prey, and this nine was led by the kuiko shunkar), kazy shunkar — true gyrfalcon, kara shunkar — gyrfalcon with black plumage (very difficult to train), taza shunkar — pure gyrfalcon without admixture, moynoktyu shunkar — gyrfalcon with a light
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.
The Red Book of the Kyrgyz SSR, published in 1985, included 13 species of mammals. The descriptions of the species, classification, and especially the information on their status were quite general. Over the years, the information, especially regarding bats, has significantly expanded. Information on the strategy for the conservation of mammals at the international level is easily accessible through modern information and communication technologies. Therefore, the publication of new data on
More than twenty years have passed since the publication of the last edition of the Red Book of the Kyrgyz SSR. It included 20 species from 16 genera of the class Aves. Even then, scientists from our country referred to international experience in nature conservation through the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources – IUCN. However, this did not go beyond references to this experience in the preface. At the same time, any wildlife conservation strategy,
The herpetofauna of Kyrgyzstan is generally impoverished, which is explained by the physical and climatic features of the territory, a significant part of which is occupied by high mountains with a harsh climate, and the lifestyle of amphibians and reptiles, which are the most thermophilic animals among vertebrate classes. Thus, there are nearly 5000 species of amphibians known worldwide, while only four species are found in the republic, one of which (the lake frog, a "complex"
Anthropogenic factors – the introduction of alien species, pollution of water bodies, irrigation activities, poaching – have led to a sharp decline in the populations of many indigenous fish species. Some of them have virtually ceased to appear in catches over the past 10 years and have been recommended for inclusion in the Red Book of Kyrgyzstan. Some species, whose numbers have significantly decreased, require specific measures for their protection and population recovery. These include the
The special geographical position of Kyrgyzstan in the depths of the Eurasian continent, at the junction of the Afghan-Turkestan and Dzhungar-Tian Shan biogeographical provinces, as well as its fragmented relief, determine the unique biological diversity of the arthropod fauna. According to some estimates, the arthropod fauna of Kyrgyzstan comprises 30,000 species. It is still not well studied, and new representatives of arthropods are discovered annually in various regions of the Republic,
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.
As sad as it is to realize, our time has become a period in Earth's history marked by the most drastic changes (almost to the point of destruction) that humanity has inflicted on the natural environment. Currently, as a result of anthropogenic impact, thousands of species of plants and animals may disappear from the planet. This process must be halted because further reduction of biodiversity could lead to destabilization of ecosystems.