The brown dipper, also known as Pallas's dipper, Asian dipper or the Asiatic dipper, is an aquatic songbird found in the mountains of the east Palearctic. It is a thrush-like bird with a cocked tail. Its plumage is chocolate-brown with a slightly lighter coloured back and breast. At 22 cm (8.7 in) and 87 g (3.1 oz), it is the largest of the dippers. This species, which is not often seen, is found at medium to low elevations where mountain streams flow.
Pallas's reed bunting, also known as Pallas's bunting, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia (1767–1810).
Alexander Eduard Friedrich Eversmann was a Prussian biologist and explorer.
Serratula is a genus of plants in the thistle tribe within the daisy family native to Eurasia. Plumeless saw-wort is a common name for plants in this genus. Serratula as traditionally defined contains at least two groups: one of which is basal within the subtribe Centaureinae and one of which is derived; the former group can be moved to the genus Klasea.
Corispermum is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Common names given to members of the genus involve bugseed, tickseed, and tumbleweed. In general, these are erect annual plants with flat, thin leaves and topped with inflorescences of flowers with long bracts. Bugseeds are native to North America and Eurasia, but little is known about their taxonomy and distribution.
Christian von Steven was a Finnish-born Russian botanist and entomologist.
Erysimum redowskii, synonym Erysimum pallasii, known as Pallas' wallflower, is a low shrub or mid shrub species from the Arctic. It has purple flowers that do not reflect UV.
Huckleberry is a name used in North America for several plants in the family Ericaceae, in two closely related genera: Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. The huckleberry is the state fruit of Idaho.
Richteria is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the daisy family. Described in 1842, the genus is named after botanist Alexander Richter.
Ceratogyne is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
Anabasis is a genus of plants in the subfamily Salsoloideae of the family Amaranthaceae. It is distributed in southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia.
Stemmacantha is a genus of Asian plants in the thistle tribe within the daisy family.
Chorispora is a genus of plant in the family Brassicaceae.
Iris paradoxa is a species of flowering plant native to western Asia. It has large upright petals and smaller lower petals, which is unique amongst most iris forms. They come in various shades from white, lavender, mauve, medium purple, violet, dark purple to black. It has a black or purplish black beard on the lower petals. It comes from the region of Transcaucasia, and is found in the countries of Iran,, Turkey, Armenia and in Azerbaijan.
Leucopogon gibbosus is a small plant in the family Ericaceae, endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub, growing from 0.2 m to 1 m high, on sandy soils often over granite or on lateric gravel. Its white flowers may be seen from February to October.
Allium guttatum, spotted garlic, is a species of wild garlic native to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, the Balkan Peninsula, the Aegean Islands, Turkey, Cyprus, Romania, and Ukraine. Described in 1809, by 1819 it was being cultivated in British gardens as an ornamental.
Claytonia arctica, commonly known as Arctic Spring Beauty, is a species of flowering plant native to northeastern Siberia, Kamchatka, the Aleutians and Alaska. A Beringian plant, it has been subject to a great deal of taxonomic confusion over the years, frequently confounded with Claytonia sarmentosa and C. scammaniana.
Asteridea asteroides is a herb in the Asteraceae family, which is endemic to Western Australia. It was first described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow as Trichostegia asteroides. In 1980, G. Kroner assigned it to the genus, Asteridea, giving it the name Asteridea asteroides. It is a perennial herb, growing on sand or gravelly sand to heights of from 5 cm to 30 cm. Its white flowers may seen from August to November in Beard's South-West Province.
Coleanthera is a plant genus in the family Ericaceae. The genus is endemic to Western Australia, and is currently accepted by Plants of the World online, and the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, but not by the Western Australian Herbarium, where it has been subsumed into the genus, Styphelia, for the phylogenetic reasons given by Darren M. Crayn, Michael Hislop and Caroline Puente-Lelièvre.
