| |
|
 |
Mongolia has 128 species
of rare plants registered in Mongolian Red Data Book
, and 2 species studied in Gun-Galuut NR in current
situation.
Thymus
gobicus Tschern.
Mint Family-Labiatae Juss.
VI-VII; VII; 2-3 cm; semi-shrub
Botanical
characteristics: Semi-shrub
with woody base. Heavily branched stems round
and evenly hairy, leaves small, firm, circular
or oval-shaped narrow, smooth edged, outer surface
of leaves covered with long hairs along |
|
ventral margins; leaf stalks hairy, red brown.
Habitat:
Rocks, screes, debris and stony
steppe slopes, desert steppes, waterside pebbles,
fixed sands.
Distribution:
Khubsugul, Khangai, Mongol-Daurian, Mobgolian
Altai, Middle Khalkha, East Mongolia, Depression
of Great Lakes, Valley of Lakes, Gobi Altai.
Economic
uses: Medical and aromatic,
good for washing hair. Used for treatment of
respiratory diseases and as an extract for kidney
disorders. An endemic plant. |
|
|
Caryopteris
mongolica Bge.
Vervain
Family-Verbenaceae Jaume.
VIII; VII-VIII; 20-40 cm; shrub
Botanical
characteristics: Multi-stemmed.
Young shoots dark-red. Dwarf shrub, with opposite,
linear-lanceolate, densely pubescent gray-green
leaves with entire margin (rarely with spaced
teeth) and bright blue flowers in |
| racemose
inflorescences. Smooth, simple leaves 3.5-5
cm long, upper leaf surface green and lower
surface whitish. Fruit fragile, four banners
and striped capsules dissected into four sections.
Habitat:
Steppe and desert stony and debris slopes of
hills and mountains, on rocks, slopes and sandy-pebble
bottom of sayrs, river shoals, thin sands.
Distribution:
Khentei, Khangai, Mongol-Daurian,
Mongolian Altai, Middle Khalkha, East Mongolia,
Valley of Lakes, East Gobi, Gobi-Altai, Transaltai
Gobi, Alashan Gobi.
Economic
uses: Medical
and forage plant. |
|
|
|
 |
PLabiatae Juss -
Thymus gobicus |
| |
|
| |
|
|