Mongolia is home
to more than 2823 species of plants, representing
a mixture of species from the northern taiga of Siberia,
the steppe and the dessert of Central Asia. Mongolian
territory is classified in 16 geographic zones by
its plant distribution.
Including two zones that are forest steppe of Mongol
Daguur and Steppe of Middle Khalkh, Gun-Galuut NR
is rich in many kind of useful and medicinal plants.
Our research team including Dr. Oyuntsetseg B in Botany
and her student Tuvshinjargal N researched in area
of Gun-Galuut, and determined 86 species belonging
to 76 orders from 33 families plants in 2007, out
of which 41 species belonging to 36 orders from 19
families are useful and medicinal plants, and 2 species
are rare plants listed in Mongolian Red Data Book.
In addition, we will continue to research Gun-Galuut's
plants with more detialed.
Following 4 determined plants are the most common
species in Gun-Galuut NR.
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Dontostemon
integrifolius.
L. C. A. Mey
Mustard
Family-Cruciferae
Jusse.
Botanical
characteristics: Plant with
eglandular or glandular hairs. Stems erect
or ascending, simple several branched. Leaves
sessile, linear. Petals purple or pink, rarely
white, 5-7 mm long. |
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VI-VII;
VIII; 2.5-25 cm; annual or biennial herb
Habitat:
Sandy and debris steppes, debris and stony
slopes, screes, rocks, alkaline chee-grass
stands, bottom of sayrs and waterside pebbles.
Distribution:
Khubsugul, Khentei, Khangai, Mongol-Daurian,
Great Khingan, Khobdo, Mongolian Altai, Middle
Khalkha, East Mongolia, Depression of Great
Lakes, Valley of Lakes, East Gobi, Gobi-Altai,
Alashan Gobi.
Economic
uses: Medical and forage plant.
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Dianthus
versicolor Fisch.
L.
Pink
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Juss.
VII-VIII; VIII; 10-15cm; perennial
herb
Botanical
characteristics:Mesophyric
- xerophytic plant. Thick taproot. Flowers
solitary at apexes of stem and branches. Leaves
linear-lanceolate, flat. Lower side of petals
pink and upper |
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surface lighter, 10-12mm long, hairy at base
and toothed at the tip. Calyx 3-5mm wide;
floral scales attenuate into subulate cusp
and reach middle of calyx or its teeth; petals
purple or dark pink above and greenish beneath.
Habitat:
Steppes, steppe meadow, dry
debris and stony slopes and rocks.
Distribution:
Khubsugul, Khentei, Khangai,
Mongol-Daurian, Great Khingan, Khobdo, Mongolian
Altai, Middle Khalka, East Mongolia, Depression
of Great Lakes, Valley of Lakes, Gobi Altai.
Economic
uses: Medical
and forage plant. Moderately palatable to
horses and small animals; cattle graze poorly
in summer. |
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Amygdalus
pedunculata Pall.
Rose
Family:-Rosaceae
Juss.
V-VI;
VI-VII; 60-150 cm; shrub
Botanical
characteristics:
Plant with unarmed branches, leaves dense
small, oblong-obovate or oblong-oval, 2-3
cm long, acutely serrate-dentate, sparsely
short-pilose. |
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Flowers
rather large in small corymbs. Flowers bright
pink, rarely white, expanding before leaves.
Fruits dryish, solitary or by 2 together and
densely short-pilose, with scabrous stone.
Habitat:
Stony slopes, sides and bottom
of sayrs, alluvial fans, fringes of sands,
rocks in steppe and desert zones.
Distribution:
Khentei, Khangai, Mongol-Daurian, Khobdo,
Mongolian Altai, Middle Khalkha, East Mongolia,
Depression of Great Lakes, Valley of Lakes,
East Gobi, Gobi-Altai, Transaltai Gobi, Alashan
Gobi.
Economic
uses: Medical, forage and
poisonous plant. |
List
of total plants notified in Gun-galuut NR
Useful and
medicinal plants notified in Gun-Galuut NR
Rare plants
notified in Gun-Galuut NR
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