COLLECTION

Collection: Flora of Middle Asia collection

UO

subject

Conservation biology

description

The collection of vascular plants from Middle Asia (mainly Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan with some from Uzbekistan). It consists of approx. 15,000 specimens with ca. 6,000 identified. They were collected during 2006-2021 in almost all vegetation types and habitats of the Global Hotspot of Biodiversity “Mountains of Central Asia”. The collection was used to comparative studies on several groups of species and is the voucher collection for a number of ecological studies.