Jasmine is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae. It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania. Jasmines are widely cultivated for the characteristic fragrance of their flowers. Additionally a number of unrelated species of plants or flowers contain the word "jasmine" in their common names.
Alexander Georg von Bunge was a Russian botanist. He is best remembered for scientific expeditions into Asia and especially Siberia.
The Salsoloideae are a subfamily of the Amaranthaceae, formerly in family Chenopodiaceae.
Polemonium, commonly called Jacob's ladders or Jacob's-ladders, is a genus of between 25 and 40 species of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae, native to cool temperate to arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. One species also occurs in the southern Andes in South America. Many of the species grow at high altitudes, in mountainous areas. Most of the uncertainty in the number of species relates to those in Eurasia, many of which have been synonymized with Polemonium caeruleum.
Platysace is a genus of woody perennial herbs and subshrubs in the family Apiaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia.
Galegeae is a tribe in the flowering plant family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. The tribe is found mostly in the northern hemisphere, but can also be found in Australia, Africa, and South America. Recent molecular phylogenetic work has determined that tribe Galegeae is paraphyletic, and that its members are scattered throughout the IR-lacking clade.
Haloxylon persicum, the white saxaul, is a small tree belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. Its range is Western Asia, including the Palestine region, Egypt, Sinai, South Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Oman, UAE, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, to Central Asia, and China.
Silene caucasica is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Transcaucasia and Turkey.
Allium macrostemon, Chinese garlic, Japanese garlic or long-stamen onion, is a species of wild onion widespread across much of East Asia. It is known from many parts of China, as well as Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Tibet and Primorye. It has been collected from elevations ranging from sea level to 3000 m.
Ungernia is a genus of bulb-forming plants in the Amaryllis family, native to central and south-central Asia Asia.
Cyclotrichium is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1953. The entire genus is endemic to southwestern Asia.
- Cyclotrichium depauperatum(Bunge) Manden. & Scheng. - western Iran
- Cyclotrichium glabrescens(Boiss. ex Rech.f.) Leblebici - southeastern Turkey
- Cyclotrichium haussknechtii(Bunge) Manden. & Scheng. - western Iran
- Cyclotrichium leucotrichum(Stapf ex Rech.f.) Leblebici - Iran, Iraq, Turkey
- Cyclotrichium longiflorumLeblebici - Iran, Iraq, Turkey
- Cyclotrichium niveum(Boiss.) Manden. & Scheng - eastern Turkey
- Cyclotrichium origanifolium(Labill.) Manden. & Scheng. - Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey
- Cyclotrichium stamineum(Boiss. & Hohen.) Manden. & Scheng. - Iraq, Turkey
- Cyclotrichium straussii(Bornm.) Rech.f. - western Iran
Astragalus macrobotrys is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae.
Astragalus squarrosus is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae.
Astragalus masenderanus is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae.
Leontice is a group of perennial, tuberous herbs in the Berberidaceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.
Bienertia is a flowering plant genus that currently is classified in the family Amaranthaceae s.l.. For long time, the genus was considered to consist only of one species, Bienertia cycloptera, but in 2005 and 2012, two new species have been separated.
Haloxylon salicornicum is a shrub or undershrub belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It is a desert shrub and is found in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Bienertia cycloptera is a species of flowering plant that is native to the Middle East, south-eastern Europe, and central Asia. It is a succulent, smooth annual plant with long, curved, cylindrical leaves. Its flowers have both male and female reproducing parts and its fruits are small and spherical. Bienertia cycloptera grows in hot, dry climates with little rainfall and tolerates soils with high salinity levels very well. Due to its specific growing conditions, B. cycloptera is not a very common, nor widespread plant. Even over most of its range, it often grows sparsely in small patches of growth. One notable aspect of Bienertia cycloptera is its unique C4 photosynthesis mechanism. Unlike most C4 plants, in B. cycloptera the photosynthetic mechanism occurs within a single chlorenchyma cell, without Kranz anatomy.
Betula gmelinii is a species of birch native to the Altai, Siberia, Mongolia, northeastern China, the Korean peninsula and Hokkaido in Japan. It prefers to live in sandy soils. Its 'Mount Apoi' cultivar has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Hammada is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It is also in the Salsoloideae subfamily. Although it is a very unclear and unsorted genus with many species that have later been classed as synonyms.
