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7FB1D4D36B625920A322DFFB10B8DD7C.text	7FB1D4D36B625920A322DFFB10B8DD7C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bidens tinctoria (Nutt.) Baill. ex Sennikov 2021	<div><p>Bidens tinctoria (Nutt.) Baill. ex Sennikov 2021</p> <p>Bidens tinctoria (Nutt.) Baill. [Hist. Pl. (Baillon) 8: 305 (1882)] ex Sennikov, comb. nova - Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt., J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 2: 114 (1821).</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p>The species can be easily recognised by its ray flowers, which are typically yellow with a large red spot at the base, but sometimes purely yellow or red. Leaves are nearly sessile, pinnately divided with long and narrow lateral lobes.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Native distribution</p> <p>This species is native to North America (from southern Canada to northern Mexico) (Strother 2006).</p> <p>Secondary distribution</p> <p>Neophyte in Central America, Europe, Western and Southern Asia, Southern Africa.</p> <p>Distribution in Central Asia</p> <p>First recorded as an alien in Kyrgyzstan here.</p> <p>This species was common in ornamental cultivation in Uzbekistan already by the 1960s, although not reported as escaped from cultivation (Nabiev 1962a). However, the contemporary literature on the flora of Kyrgyzstan (Sultanova 1963, Sultanova 1965) made no mention of the species, probably because of confusion with Cosmos sulphureus Cav. (cf. Verloove and Lambinon 2008). Neither was it mentioned in the latest manual of the Central Asian flora (Adylov and Zuckerwanik 1993), apparently due to the lack of spontaneous records.</p> <p>Currently the species was observed in ornamental cultivation in Kyrgyzstan (Fig. 2).</p> <p>Distribution in Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Western Tian-Shan (Fig. 3).</p> <p>We discovered this species once and for the first time in 2016. A few flowering individuals were observed in ruderal places around an isolated gasoline station on the main road along the Naryn River in Jalal-Abad Region, at an elevation about 800 m a.s.l.</p> <p>Ecology</p> <p>Prairies, on moist, sandy or clayey soils in the native distribution area (Strother 2006); disturbed places and waste ground in the secondary distribution area.</p> <p>Biology</p> <p>Annual.</p> <p>Notes</p> <p>The taxonomy of Coreopsideae Lindl. has been controversial since the original description of its main genera, Bidens L. and Coreopsis L. Tadesse et al. (1996) stressed that the main diagnostic characters traditionally used to delimit these genera (achene awns and wings) are unreliable because of the presence of intermediate states and geographic disparity; the differences in plant habit were used to support the other characters. Many studies (e.g. Mort et al. 2008, Knope et al. 2020) demonstrated that both Bidens and Coreopsis are polyphyletic and resolved as a number of clades intermixed with each other. Since many African (but not American) species of Coreopsis have already been reclassified in Bidens, Banfi et al. (2017) completed such transfers for the Euro+Med area. We agree that Bidens and Coreopsis are not recognisable by morphology and cannot be maintained on phylogenetic grounds and, therefore, accept Bidens as a single broadly defined genus.</p> <p>The transfer of Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. was commonly attributed to Baillon (1882). In this book, the taxonomic placement of Coreopsis as a section of Bidens was suggested and some constituent species were listed including Coreopsis tinctoria. Since the combination " Bidens tinctoria " was only implied but did not appear in print in that text, it was not validly published according to Art. 35.2 of the ICN (Turland et al. 2018). It was not inadvertently validated later by Jackson (1893), who indexed this species name but typeset it in Italics and, therefore, indicated its taxonomic status as a synonym (Greuter 1985). It was not validly published by Banfi et al. (2017) because these authors did not provide a full and direct reference to the basionym publication. Since we cannot trace any other acceptance of this binomial in botanical literature, we assume that it remains invalidly published. For this reason, this species name is treated as a new combination here.</p> <p>In the past, Coreopsis basalis (A.Dietr.) S.F.Blake (syn. C. drummondii (D.Don) Torr. &amp; A.Gray) was reported as the only species of this genus present in ornamental cultivation in Kyrgyzstan (Sultanova 1965). This species is immediately distinct from C. tinctoria in its much wider, elliptic to lanceolate leaf lobes (Strother 2006). So far, C. basalis has never been reported as escaped from cultivation in Kyrgyzstan.</p> <p>Introduction to Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Period of introduction</p> <p>Neophyte.</p> <p>We collected the species for the first time in 2016. This introduction falls within the period of independence of Kyrgyzstan (since 1991).</p> <p>Pathways of introduction</p> <p>Transport - Contaminant: Food contaminant (including of live food).</p> <p>This species is a popular ornamental plant, which was widely cultivated in Central Asia (data from Uzbekistan) already by the 1960s (Nabiev 1962a). However, no evidence of any ornamental cultivation was observed at the time of our record.</p> <p>The ruderal ground, on which the species was seen in Kyrgyzstan, has been used as a parking and turning place for long-distance trucks and other transport. Since the species is known as a crop weed in North America (Everitt et al. 2007) and has been recorded as having arrived with contaminated grain in Europe (e.g. Suominen 1979, Borisova and Golubeva 2006, Verloove et al. 2020, Verloove 2021), we assume the same pathway of introduction also occurred in our locality.</p> <p>Further dispersal does not take place.</p> <p>Invasion status</p> <p>Casual (ephemeral, no viable population observed).</p> <p>Evidence of impact</p> <p>Agriculture - no impact (not observed as a weed). Native ecosystems - no impact (not observed in native habitats). Urban areas - minor impact (ruderal occurrence, casual).</p> <p>Trend</p> <p>No expansion observed, no dynamics known.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7FB1D4D36B625920A322DFFB10B8DD7C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Sennikov, Alexander N.;Lazkov, Georgy A.	Sennikov, Alexander N., Lazkov, Georgy A. (2021): The first checklist of alien vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, with new records and critical evaluation of earlier data. Contribution 1. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: 75590, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590
5AC35411F8A85070947ECA2522C5743D.text	5AC35411F8A85070947ECA2522C5743D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bunias orientalis L. 1753	<div><p>Bunias orientalis L. 1753</p> <p>Bunias orientalis L., Sp. Pl. 2: 670 (1753).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Native distribution</p> <p>Eastern Europe (southern parts up to the boreal zone), Asia (Western Caucasus, Transcaucasia, eastern Anatolia). Two main parts of the distribution area, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, correspond to two main gene pools (Koch et al. 2017). The hypothesis of its non-native origin in Europe (Meusel and Jäger 1965) should, therefore, be rejected.</p> <p>Secondary distribution</p> <p>Neophyte and archaeophyte in Europe (outside its south-eastern part) and Northern Asia, neophyte in Central Asia, China and North America.</p> <p>Since the 19th century, the species has been dispersed throughout other parts of Europe and, since the 20th century, also in Asia. Its early introduction to France was frequently ascribed to military activities of the Russian army during the War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-1814); this legendary report first appeared in an early German textbook (Endlicher and Unger 1843), was subsequently promoted in popular literature (Rachinsky 1866) and finally entered academic writing (Klinge 1887). According to the original source (Loiseleur Deslongchamps 1807), the plant was actually naturalised from "garden" (i.e. experimental) cultivation in three places near Paris well before the War. Its earliest introductions to Europe seem to have been regularly linked with its cultivation for fodder or salad (Curtis 1812, Sinclair 1825, Lawson and Lawson 1836), which was followed by a massive invasion with imported crop seeds and fodder (e.g. Suominen 1979, Pyšek et al. 2017). The species became a noxious weed and invasive in Northern Europe (Scandinavia and Finland) already in the second part of the 19th century (e.g. Fries 1845, Woll 1899). Its recent spread in Europe is linked with transportation of contaminated grain and fodder in the second part of the 20th century (Jehlík and Slavík 1968, Jehlík and Hejný 1974, Suominen 1979), and its local dispersal may occur by vehicles (Kiełtyk 2014).</p> <p>Besides the history of introduction in the modern period (neophyte records), archaeological evidence indicates that Bunias orientalis was cultivated in Europe (Poland) as early as in the 12th and 13th centuries, most likely for food and fodder, and may remain locally surviving since then (Celka 2011).</p> <p>Distribution in Central Asia</p> <p>Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan.</p> <p>This species was originally introduced to Central Asia (eastern Kazakhstan) and southern Siberia as food by nomadic Turkic people over 2300-2400 years ago (Dashkovsky et al. 2014), but this introduction had been eventually extirpated as no early botanical records indicated the presence of this species more easterly from the south-eastern Urals (Ledebour 1841). The first recent record of the species more easterly of the Urals, in southern Siberia, is dated 1912 (Krylov 1931); the plants were collected as crop weeds and along roadsides, and the species was apparently introduced as a crop seed contaminant when the agrarian colonisation of Siberia was intensified by the Department of Migrations (1896-1917). This introduction occurred from East European populations of the species (Koch et al. 2017).</p> <p>Bunias orientalis was first known from Kazakhstan (as ruderal in the eastern and south-eastern parts and in the Transili Alatau) (Vasilieva 1961, Vasilieva 1969, Nabiev 1974). This distribution pattern (several records in the easternmost hilly part of the country and single records in the mountains) is still valid (Plantarium 2021). According to herbarium collections kept at LE, the first specimen of the species was collected from Kazakhstan in 1960, but its first records are apparently earlier.</p> <p>The species was introduced to Uzbekistan (Tashkent Region, Boʻstonliq District) from Eastern Europe and was found locally established already in 1973 (Koch et al. 2017), but this record remained formally unpublished and was not taken into account in any other literature.</p> <p>We discovered this species in Kyrgyzstan in 2009, for the first time in the Sary-Chelek Nature Reserve (Lazkov et al. 2011). One more locality was found in 2021.</p> <p>Distribution in Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Western Tian-Shan, Eastern Tian-Shan (new record) (Fig. 3).</p> <p>So far, the species is known from two remote territories. In the Sary-Chelek Nature Reserve, it was first discovered (Lazkov et al. 2011) as a large population along the side of the road leading from Arkyt Village to Lake Sary-Chelek (Fig. 4). Since 2018, the species was registered also in Arkyt Village, to which it was transported with hay from managed meadows (Lazkov, pers. obs.).</p> <p>In 2021, a large population of Bunias orientalis was found at Acha-Kayyingdy Village (At-Bashy Mountain Range), on a fallow field with ruderal vegetation. Its further occurrence in the country can be predicted on cultivated lands.</p> <p>In Kyrgyzstan, the species occurs at elevations between 1800 and 2200 m, which are suitable for crop and forage production and correspond to altitudes in the native distribution area of the species.</p> <p>Ecology</p> <p>Mountain meadows at altitudes up to 2500 m in the native area; managed and natural meadows, fallow lands, pastures, ruderal places and roadsides with preference for disturbed ground in the secondary area.</p> <p>The species has been a common weed of spring crops in Eastern Europe (Jarmolenko and Vasilchenko 1934) and was considered a common contaminant of crop seed and a noxious weed in Finland (Woll 1899) and Sweden (Fries 1845) already by the mid-19th century, due to the import of Russian rye.</p> <p>Biology</p> <p>Perennial forb with biennial stems and a strong taproot. Promoted by disturbance and moving, with very high generative effort (Steinlein et al. 1996, Woitke and Dietz 2002).</p> <p>Introduction to Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Period of introduction</p> <p>Neophyte.</p> <p>The first record is dated 2009 (Lazkov et al. 2011). We feel confident that this conspicuous species was not overlooked in the times of the Soviet botanical exploration (especially considering that its first record came from the most actively explored area) and had arrived during the period of the independence of Kyrgyzstan (since 1991).</p> <p>Pathways of introduction</p> <p>Transport - Contaminant: Seed contaminant. Transport - Contaminant: Contaminated bait.</p> <p>According to the publicly available information (calls for tenders), the Sary-Chelek Nature Reserve regularly (nowadays twice a year) purchases considerable amounts of fodder to feed wild animals. This fodder has been imported from Russia, where Bunias orientalis is a common weed and distributed for animal consumption across the territory of the Nature Reserve. Further dispersal occurred by hay management.</p> <p>In the second locality at Acha-Kayyingdy, the species was apparently a crop weed, thus being a contaminant of crop seed.</p> <p>Invasion status</p> <p>Locally naturalised, potentially invasive.</p> <p>Evidence of impact</p> <p>Agriculture - moderate impact (weed of fallow fields and managed meadows; limited occurrence). Native ecosystems - minor impact (on managed meadows). Urban areas - minor impact (occurrence in ruderal places and on roadsides).</p> <p>Trend</p> <p>Increasing (observed).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5AC35411F8A85070947ECA2522C5743D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Sennikov, Alexander N.;Lazkov, Georgy A.	Sennikov, Alexander N., Lazkov, Georgy A. (2021): The first checklist of alien vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, with new records and critical evaluation of earlier data. Contribution 1. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: 75590, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590
42AE86FAFE3856FC997373C1BFA2A3C9.text	42AE86FAFE3856FC997373C1BFA2A3C9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Erigeron annuus (L.) (L.) Desf. 1804	<div><p>Erigeron annuus (L.) Desf. 1804</p> <p>Erigeron annuus (L.) Desf., Tabl. École Bot.: 102 (1804) - Aster annuus L., Sp. Pl. 2: 875 (1753) - Phalacroloma annuum (L.) Dumort., Fl. Belg.: 67 (1827) - Stenactis annua (L.) Nees, Gen. Sp. Aster.: 273 (1832).</p> <p>Erigeron annuus Erigeron ramosus var. septentrionalis Erigeron annuus subsp. septentrionalis Stenactis annua subsp. septentrionalis Stenactis septentrionalis Phalacroloma annuum subsp. septentrionale Phalacroloma septentrionale</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p>In the group of Erigeron annuus s.l., E. annuus s.str. can be distinguished by its narrower cauline leaves with less prominent teeth, white ray flowers and involucres with hairs 0.8-1.2(1.5) mm long (Sennikov and Kurtto 2019).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Native distribution</p> <p>North America (Canada, USA, Mexico).</p> <p>Secondary distribution</p> <p>Neophyte in Europe and Asia. In Europe, this species belongs to the most widely distributed alien vascular plants (Lambdon et al. 2008). It is also listed among the most dangerous invasive species in Russia (Dgebuadze et al. 2018).</p> <p>Distribution in Central Asia</p> <p>Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan.</p> <p>Tulaganova (1993) reported Erigeron annuus s.l. from Almaty City, Kazakhstan. This was the first record of this species complex published in Central Asia. A recent record from the same area, situated close to the Botanical Garden and the National University (iNaturalist 2021), shows that this population belongs to E. lilacinus as defined by Sennikov and Kurtto (2019).</p> <p>In Tajikistan, this species, broadly defined following Frey et al. (2003), was reported from Dushanbe City (Nobis et al. 2017). The plants photographed in Dushanbe by Dzhamshed Sattarov (Plantarium 2021) have broad and coarsely dentate leaves and lilac flowers and, therefore, correspond to E. lilacinus (Sennikov and Kurtto 2019).</p> <p>Our new reports of this species (as currently defined) provide its first reliable records from Central Asia and extend its known secondary distribution to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.</p> <p>In Uzbekistan, the species was first recorded by Tulkin Tillaev in 2020 from meadows in Ulug'bek District of Tashkent City (Plantarium 2021). It forms a large population, which is apparently established.</p> <p>Distribution in Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Western Tian-Shan (Fig. 5).</p> <p>We found large populations of this species along the Avletim River (downstream from Avletim Village) and the Kojo-Ata River (downstream from Arkyt Village up to the Avletim River), including the vicinities of Arkyt Village. The populations around Arkyt (Fig. 6) have been observed during multiple visits since 2009. In this area, the species is connected with managed meadows (used for hay-making) but occurs extensively also on natural meadows along river sides.</p> <p>As observed in the Caucasus, the invasion of Erigeron annuus may be highly aggressive on hay meadows and pastures of mountainous areas up to high elevations (Pshegusov et al. 2020), and its further spread in Kyrgyzstan is therefore expected.</p> <p>In the Sary-Chelek Nature Reserve, the species was found at elevations between 1000 and 1300 m, which are optimal for grasslands and forb meadows. The upper altitudinal limit observed at 1000 a.s.l. in the Swiss Alps in Europe (Trtikova et al. 2010) is not valid in the Tian-Shan Mountains.</p> <p>Ecology</p> <p>Prairies and meadows in the native distribution area; managed meadows and ruderal places in the secondary distribution area. In Europe, this species belongs to the three most invasive neophytes occurring in natural and semi-natural grasslands (Axmanová et al. 2021).</p> <p>Biology</p> <p>Annual or biennial. The species is characterised by very high seed productivity (Stratton 1991) and easily colonises bare or disturbed grounds (Stratton 1992). The seeds of Erigeron annuus were found to inhibit the development of seedlings of some other species (Oh et al. 2002, Kudryavtseva et al. 2020).</p> <p>Notes</p> <p>The taxonomy, nomenclature, native and secondary distributions of species-level taxa in the complex of Erigeron annuus s.l. were resolved by Sennikov and Kurtto (2019).</p> <p>Introduction to Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Period of introduction</p> <p>Neophyte.</p> <p>The species was first recorded in the wild in 2009 and had apparently arrived during the period of the independence of Kyrgyzstan, in the 2000s.</p> <p>Pathways of introduction</p> <p>Transport - Contaminant: Contaminated bait.</p> <p>Similarly to Bunias orientalis, this species was seemingly introduced to the Sary-Chelek Nature Reserve as a contaminant of imported fodder from Russia, where it is known as one of the most widely distributed invasive plants (Vinogradova et al. 2018). This species is highly favoured by mowing, which promotes its local invasion (Song et al. 2018); that was apparently the case in Kyrgyzstan, where it was unintentionally dispersed by the inhabitants of Arkyt Village, who used the territory intensely for hay-making (Sennikov &amp; Lazkov, pers. obs.).</p> <p>Further dispersal occurs by wind and human management.</p> <p>Invasion status</p> <p>Fully naturalised, highly invasive.</p> <p>Evidence of impact</p> <p>Agriculture - moderate impact (weed of pastures and hay-making meadows, with limited distribution; not recorded in crop production areas). Native ecosystems - moderate impact (invading riversides, grasslands and other meadows, with limited distribution). Urban areas - minor impact (very rare ruderal plant in populated places, including private gardens).</p> <p>Trend</p> <p>Increasing (observed).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/42AE86FAFE3856FC997373C1BFA2A3C9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Sennikov, Alexander N.;Lazkov, Georgy A.	Sennikov, Alexander N., Lazkov, Georgy A. (2021): The first checklist of alien vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, with new records and critical evaluation of earlier data. Contribution 1. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: 75590, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590
E79301DC4BA85FB9A017966D103F9C36.text	E79301DC4BA85FB9A017966D103F9C36.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Erigeron lilacinus (Sennikov & Kurtto) Sennikov 2020	<div><p>Erigeron lilacinus (Sennikov &amp; Kurtto) Sennikov 2020</p> <p>Erigeron lilacinus (Sennikov &amp; Kurtto) Sennikov, Wulfenia 27: 2 (2020) - Erigeron annuus subsp. lilacinus Sennikov &amp; Kurtto, Memoranda Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 95: 47 (2019).</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p>In the group of Erigeron annuus s.l., E. lilacinus can be distinguished by its broader cauline leaves with more prominent teeth, pale lilac ray flowers, and involucres with hairs 0.8-1.2(1.5) mm long (Sennikov and Kurtto 2019).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Native distribution</p> <p>North America (south-eastern Canada, north-eastern and eastern USA).</p> <p>Secondary distribution</p> <p>Neophyte in Europe and Asia.</p> <p>In Eastern (Tropical) Asia, the occurrences of this species were known from Taiwan and Vietnam (Sennikov et al. 2020). Both records previously reported from Nepal (Sukhorukov 2015) also belong to E. lilacinus because of the lilac ray florets and coarsely dentate leaves.</p> <p>The presence of the species in Central Asia is reported for the first time here. The distribution in other Asian countries has not been studied yet.</p> <p>Distribution in Central Asia</p> <p>First reported from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan here.</p> <p>In Uzbekistan, the species was first recorded by Alexander Sukhorukov in 2001 at the entrance to the Botanical Garden in Tashkent, where it occurred abundantly on ruderal places (Seregin 2021). Tulkin Tillaev (and Alim Gaziev) also recorded this species in 2012 from ruderal places in Ulug'bek District of Tashkent City (Plantarium 2021). The species is considered casual but locally persisting, on the way to naturalisation.</p> <p>In Tajikistan, the species was previously reported as E. annuus [s.l.] (Nobis et al. 2017). The plants were collected in 2007 (Nobis et al. 2017) and observed in 2016 (Plantarium 2021) along the streets, probably introduced as weeds of ornamental cultivation.</p> <p>In Kazakhstan, the species is known from ruderal places and as a weed of flower beds in Almaty City. Two recent records are known: from the area situated close to the Botanical Garden and the National University, by Ruslan Nurkhanov in 2020 (iNaturalist 2021), and from unspecified vicinities of the city in the Transili Alatau, by Igor Syazhkin in 2010 (Plantarium 2021). The oldest record from the same city (Tulaganova 1993), which was published as E. annuus [s.l.], has not been verified.</p> <p>Distribution in Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Northern Tian-Shan.</p> <p>The species is known from two populated places. In Bishkek, it has been recorded since the 1980s as having escaped from cultivation and then as fully naturalised in the Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences (I. Popova, pers. comm.). Besides, recently it was found in two more places in Bishkek, by Galina Chulanova in 2015 (ca. five flowering individuals) on street lawns situated near the Botanical Garden (Plantarium 2021) and by Georgy Lazkov in 2020 (ca. 10 individuals) on flower beds situated close to the Panfilov Park (Fig. 7), and also recorded from one place in a popular resort area along the northern side of Lake Ysyk-Köl, where it was observed by Galina Chulanova in 2011 (Plantarium 2021). The latter area is known for numerous introductions of ornamental plants.</p> <p>Ecology</p> <p>Prairies and meadows in the native distribution area; artificial meadows, ruderal places and cultivated lands in the secondary distribution area.</p> <p>Biology</p> <p>Annual or biennial.</p> <p>Introduction to Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Period of introduction</p> <p>Neophyte.</p> <p>In the Botanical Garden, the species was intentionally introduced in the 1970s and became established in the 1980s, during the late Soviet period. The species was unintentionally introduced in the 2000s (first recorded in 2011), during the period of the independence of Kyrgyzstan.</p> <p>Pathways of introduction</p> <p>Transport - Contaminant: Contaminant nursery material. Escape from confinement: Botanical garden.</p> <p>In agreement with observations of Sennikov and Kurtto (2019), in Kyrgyzstan, Erigeron lilacinus was recently found in places of cultivation of ornamental plants or on artificial lawns. Consequently, we consider the species to have arrived with contaminated seed of ornamental plants or nursery material.</p> <p>The record in the Botanical Garden in Bishkek has a different origin. In that place, the species was intentionally introduced for experimental cultivation in the 1970s (erroneously as " Conyza canadensis ") but quickly spread out of control and became established already during the 1980s. Currently, it is fully naturalised in the Garden but is still kept within its limits, except for a few cases of intentional introduction or unintentional secondary dispersal to private gardens (I. Popova, pers. comm.).</p> <p>Invasion status</p> <p>Casual, temporarily persisting or locally established, not invasive. So far, we have no evidence that the species formed stable populations rather than short-lived local colonies in the places of its accidental introduction, and no further dispersal from those places was observed. However, Erigeron lilacinus has recently become abundant in man-made habitats (especially fallow and abandoned fields) in Central Russia (Sennikov, pers. obs.) and may, therefore, become invasive also in Kyrgyzstan. Its population in the Botanical Garden is locally naturalised and may potentially serve as a source of invasion in the future, as evident from some occasional instances of secondary dispersal.</p> <p>Evidence of impact</p> <p>Agriculture - no impact (not recorded in crop production areas). Native ecosystems - no impact (restricted to populated places). Urban areas - minor impact (very rare weed of ornamental gardens and street lawns, also as a ruderal plant).</p> <p>Trend</p> <p>Increasing (observed).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E79301DC4BA85FB9A017966D103F9C36	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Sennikov, Alexander N.;Lazkov, Georgy A.	Sennikov, Alexander N., Lazkov, Georgy A. (2021): The first checklist of alien vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, with new records and critical evaluation of earlier data. Contribution 1. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: 75590, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590
B168632F72A5504280E7F8755DD83780.text	B168632F72A5504280E7F8755DD83780.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Xanthium orientale L. 1763	<div><p>Xanthium orientale L. 1763</p> <p>Xanthium orientale L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1400 (1763).</p> <p>Xanthium orientale Xanthium italicum Xanthium strumarium subsp. italicum Xanthium orientale subsp. italicum</p> <p>Xanthium orientale Xanthium brasilicum</p> <p>Xanthium orientale Xanthium californicum Xanthium orientale subsp. californicum</p> <p>Xanthium orientale Xanthium albinum Xanthium riparium var. albinum</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p>This species is characterised by unarmed leaves and narrowly cylindrical hairy burrs 2-3 cm long with numerous, closely spaced hooked prickles.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Native distribution</p> <p>This species is native to North America and South America (Löve and Dansereau 1959).</p> <p>Secondary distribution</p> <p>Neophyte in Europe, Mediterranean, South Africa, Western, Boreal, Central and Tropical Asia, Australia.</p> <p>In arid regions of Asia, the species was known from several localities in Iran already 40 years ago (Dittrich 1989). In China, it was recorded for the first time in Beijing in 1991 (as X. italicum: Xu et al. 2012). In Russian Asia, it is known from many localities in southern Siberia (Khanminchun 1998) and the southern Far East (Kozhevnikov and Kozhevnikova 2011).</p> <p>Distribution in Central Asia</p> <p>Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.</p> <p>In Kazakhstan (as X. albinum: Ebel and Ebel 2003), it was first found as ruderal in Tekeli Town (Almaty Region; Dzungarian Alatau), Öskemen [Ust-Kamenogorsk] Town and north-west of Semei Town (East Kazakhstan Region; Altay Mts.); the first record (specimen dated 1955) was registered near Semei Town. Its latest records from the lowland parts of the country (Qarağandy Region, Aqtoğai District, riversides and ruderal places; Pavlodar Region, Ekіbastūz Town, ruderal places; Túrkistan, Qyzylorda and East Kazakhstan Regions) indicate a greater distribution (as X. albinum: Nobis et al. 2015, Ebel et al. 2016, Plantarium 2021).</p> <p>In Tajikistan (as X. californicum: Kinzikaeva 1988, Nabiev 1993), the species was recorded as a ruderal from two places, at Zafarobod Town and Dushanbe City.</p> <p>In Uzbekistan (as X. californicum: Nabiev 1993; as X. albinum: Esanov 2016), the species was known as a weed in Tashkent (first record dated 1986) and as widely naturalised on cotton fields, fallow fields and roadsides of the Buxaro Agricultural Oasis (first recorded in 2007 but apparently established long before). Further records (Plantarium 2021) suggest its broad distribution in the Fergana Depression. The high impact of the species on cotton fields in Uzbekistan (Esanov 2016) agrees with the reports from the USA (Weaver and Lechowicz 1983), but a diversity of Central Asian reports from ruderal habitats suggests its multiple introductions not limited to the cotton cultivation.</p> <p>Formally reported for the first time from Kyrgyzstan here.</p> <p>The first record of the species from Central Asia (dated 1955) seems to be linked with the infamous Virgin Lands campaign, which started in 1954 as the extensive cultivation of previously uncultivated lands in northern Kazakhstan. To increase the yield of wheat crops, quality seed of productive varieties of American origin seem to have been partly used.</p> <p>The large-scale invasion of X. orientale, however, occurred later, in the 1960s, when the extensive import of North American (largely Canadian) grain (wheat and maize) started to compensate for the shortage of domestic grain and fodder (Chistyakov 2009, FAO 2021).</p> <p>Distribution in Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Western Tian-Shan, Northern Tian-Shan, Alay-Turkestan (Fig. 8).</p> <p>In Kyrgyzstan, this species was rather neglected. Deza (1983) clearly distinguished it from the typical X. strumarium L. and stated that it was found most commonly in (but not restricted to) the Chü Depression, where it occurred along roadsides and irrigation ditches, in populated places, on fallow fields and field margins, in gardens and on cultivated fields. Deza (1983) misapplied the name X. sibiricum Patr. ex Widder, which she seemingly borrowed from Smolianinova (1959) through Gorbunova (1965), to this species in spite of their contrasting morphology, thus assuming its native distribution area stretching from Siberia to Central Asia. Due to this incorrect nomenclature, the species was omitted from the recent checklist of the flora of Kyrgyzstan (Lazkov and Sultanova 2011, Lazkov and Sultanova 2014).</p> <p>According to herbarium collections, X. orientale occurs in a number of localities in or around the Chü, Ysyk-Köl and Fergana Depressions, climbing into the mountains as high as 2200 m and as far as 30 km from the depressions with their high levels of agricultural activity and human population density. Our field observations confirm its currently extensive dispersal (Fig. 9).</p> <p>Ecology</p> <p>Gravelly riversides in the native distribution area; disturbed grounds, gravelly roadsides, sandy and gravelly riversides, fallow fields in the secondary distribution area.</p> <p>Biology</p> <p>Annual.</p> <p>Notes</p> <p>The modern taxonomic concept in Xanthium and the correct name for this species were established by Greuter (2003) and Tomasello (2018). Our understanding of the diagnostic characters is based on our revision of historical collections and field observations and agrees with the treatment of Nabiev (1993).</p> <p>The burrs in Central Asian plants are narrowly cylindrical, thus corresponding to X. orientale subsp. californicum (Greene) Greuter (incl. X. chinense Mill.), as originally identified by Kinzikaeva (1988).</p> <p>Introduction to Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Period of introduction</p> <p>Neophyte.</p> <p>The first collection from Kyrgyzstan (Suzak Town) is dated 1968. We assume that the species had arrived after the Second World War, in the 1960s, as a contaminant of wheat grain of North American origin.</p> <p>Pathways of introduction</p> <p>Transport - Contaminant: Seed contaminant.</p> <p>Most likely, the species had arrived as a contaminant of wheat imported from Canada, in agreement with observations in Europe (e.g. Suominen 1979). In Australia, contamination of cotton seed and animal fur were reported as other main pathways of introduction (McMillan 1975).</p> <p>Further dispersal occurred with domestic animals, water and transport.</p> <p>Invasion status</p> <p>Fully naturalised, highly invasive.</p> <p>Judging from the tendencies in its distribution and expansion, Xanthium orientale seems to be more adapted to the hot arid climate and may have a better prospect of naturalisation than its predecessor, X. strumarium.</p> <p>Evidence of impact</p> <p>Agriculture - major impact (abundant weed of fields, gardens and pastures, contamination of wool). Native ecosystems - major impact (local occurrence along mountain streams and roadsides in mountainous areas, forming extensive monodominant stands). Urban areas - major impact (ruderal occurrence, locally abundant).</p> <p>Trend</p> <p>Rapidly increasing (observed).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B168632F72A5504280E7F8755DD83780	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Sennikov, Alexander N.;Lazkov, Georgy A.	Sennikov, Alexander N., Lazkov, Georgy A. (2021): The first checklist of alien vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, with new records and critical evaluation of earlier data. Contribution 1. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: 75590, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590
BCC30C7AF1935B76871DF09D577CFCA8.text	BCC30C7AF1935B76871DF09D577CFCA8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Xanthium spinosum L. 1753	<div><p>Xanthium spinosum L. 1753</p> <p>Xanthium spinosum L., Sp. Pl. 2: 987 (1753) - Acanthoxanthium spinosum (L.) Fourr., Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, sér. 2, 17: 110 (1869).</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p>This species is characterised by armed leaves and subglabrous elliptic burrs 1-1.5 cm long with numerous hooked prickles.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Native distribution</p> <p>The species is native to South America (Löve 1975).</p> <p>Secondary distribution</p> <p>Neophyte in North America, Europe (including the Mediterranean), Southern Africa, Asia, Australia. In Europe, this species belongs to the most widely distributed alien vascular plants (Lambdon et al. 2008).</p> <p>Distribution in Central Asia</p> <p>Widely distributed in all the countries (Nabiev 1993).</p> <p>In Chinese Central Asia, Xanthium spinosum was first recorded in the 1880s by A. Regel from Uqturpan County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Fedtschenko and Fedtschenko 1911). This early Chinese record has been neglected in national inventories (e.g. Xu et al. 2012).</p> <p>In Kazakhstan, this species occurs in four restricted areas, of which the Talas Alatau is adjacent to Kyrgyzstan (Zaitseva 1965, Aldibekova et al. 2018). It was first observed in 1877 by I. Zarubin along the Syrdarya River between Qazaly (formerly Kazalinsk), Josaly (formerly Karmakshy) and Qyzylorda (formerly Perovsk) (Zarubin 1879), and then on the Maŋğystau Peninsula at the Kaspian Sea (first collected in 1895).</p> <p>In Uzbekistan, the species has been originally known from the eastern parts of the country (Tashkent and Samarkand Regions) (Nabiev 1962b). The first observation made by A. Regel along the Salor irrigation channel near Tashkent was dated the 1880s (Fedtschenko and Fedtschenko 1911); the first specimens were collected in 1912-1920 near railway stations and along roadsides.</p> <p>In Tajikistan, the species was first collected as a ruderal plant from Dushanbe (Grigoriev 1953), Xujand and Samgar in the northern part of the country (Komarov 1967). The date of the first record is not known, but seemingly it appeared shortly after the Second World War.</p> <p>In Turkmenistan, the species occurred as a rare ruderal along irrrigation ditches in and around populated places (Nikitin 1960). The first herbarium specimen was collected in 1898.</p> <p>As evident from the first herbarium specimens and observations in present-day Kazakhstan, the introduction of X. spinosum was linked to Russian fortifications that served as foreposts for the conquest and colonisation of the territory, and the roads connecting those fortifications along the Caspian Sea (established in the 1840s-1860s) and along the Syrdarya River (established in 1850s-1860s). As the species is notorious for its efficiency in contaminating various kinds of fur and wool (Kowarik and von der Lippe 2007), it is easy to understand that X. spinosum had arrived being tangled in manes and tails of Russian military horses, gradually proceeding eastwards (as, for example, in Australia: Woolls 1885). Since the species was found extensively established already in 1877 (Zarubin 1879), its invasion to Kazakhstan may have started in the 1860s or even earlier.</p> <p>Its introduction to Turkmenistan was by the same military cavalry, probably in the 1880s. In particular, the first locality of X. spinosum, Daine Village (Dittrich 1989), was a border post which was certainly horse-served at that time. In Uzbekistan, the species appeared also in the 1880s, using the same pathway (Tashkent was the seat of the Russian administration in Turkestan, intensely supported by the military power from European Russia).</p> <p>Besides the military traffic, by the 1850s, a road from Orsk Town along the Syr-Darya River was established for regular horse-driven transportation of merchandise from Russia to the Emirate of Buxoro and back (Nebolsin 1855), which undoubtedly promoted the further spread of X. spinosum.</p> <p>The first records of the species from Kyrgyzstan are later and, therefore, are not linked with the horse power. Instead, they are firmly connected with the relocation of 2.3 million head of cattle during the second part of 1941, from the European part of the USSR to its Asiatic territories, including Central Asia (Kumanev 2006), as a contaminant of cattle tails and fur, fodder and bedding. The same pathway can be inferred also for Tajikistan, where the species was not registered before the War time.</p> <p>Distribution in Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Western Tian-Shan, Northern Tian-Shan, Alay-Turkestan (Fig. 10).</p> <p>The species prefers arid areas with higher temperatures. It occurs in the Chü Depression with surrounding mountains and the eastern part of the Fergana Depression with surrounding mountains (Gorbunova 1965, Deza 1983); numerous recent observations exist (Fig. 11). Its first record comes from railway embankments in Bishkek City between Bishkek-1 Station (formerly Pishpek) and Bishkek-2 Station (formerly Frunze), where a large population was observed in 1942 (Nikitina 1965).</p> <p>The species is also known from the Talas Depression in north-western Kyrgyzstan (Deza 1983), although without supporting specimens. This part of its distribution agrees with the corresponding occurrences in Kazakhstan (Aldibekova et al. 2018).</p> <p>So far, the species was found in the lowlands and foothills, mostly at elevations of 600-1000 m, but also climbing up to 1650 m in the arid mountains.</p> <p>Ecology</p> <p>Riversides in the native distribution area; waste lands, disturbed grounds, roadsides, gravelly riversides, clayey lowlands, gardens and fallow fields in the secondary distribution area.</p> <p>Biology</p> <p>Annual.</p> <p>Introduction to Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Period of introduction</p> <p>Neophyte.</p> <p>The first record from Kyrgyzstan is based on undocumented observations from railway tracks within Bishkek City, which are dated 1942 (Nikitina 1965). The first herbarium specimens were collected from Osh Town and dated 1946. Both records are connected with the Second World War migration of refugees and relocation of resources from the European part of the USSR during 1941, which required extensive transportation of industrial equipment, human population and livestock, including a massive amount of cattle and their supply (Kazakova and Salamov 1961, Kumanev 2006).</p> <p>Pathways of introduction</p> <p>Transport - Contaminant: Contaminant on animals.</p> <p>The species has arrived as a contaminant on live animals, which were massively transported from south-eastern Europe. Further dispersal occurred by domestic animals and water.</p> <p>In Europe, the species was also noted as a grain contaminant (e.g. Suominen 1979, Clement and Foster 1994).</p> <p>Invasion status</p> <p>Fully naturalised, invasive.</p> <p>Evidence of impact</p> <p>Agriculture - minor impact (the species may occur as a weed of vegetable plantations and was noticed in gardens and vineyards) (Deza 1983). Native ecosystems - major impact (recorded along mountain rivers, in mountain forests and in steppe-like vegetation around populated places, mostly along roadsides). Urban areas - major impact (recorded as a ruderal in many populated places).</p> <p>Trend</p> <p>Increasing (observed).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BCC30C7AF1935B76871DF09D577CFCA8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Sennikov, Alexander N.;Lazkov, Georgy A.	Sennikov, Alexander N., Lazkov, Georgy A. (2021): The first checklist of alien vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, with new records and critical evaluation of earlier data. Contribution 1. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: 75590, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590
60682FD4F31157B5AB69526935718333.text	60682FD4F31157B5AB69526935718333.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Xanthium strumarium L. 1753	<div><p>Xanthium strumarium L. 1753</p> <p>Xanthium strumarium L., Sp. Pl. 2: 987 (1753).</p> <p>Xanthium strumarium Xanthium chinense</p> <p>Xanthium strumarium Xanthium sibiricum</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p>This species is characterised by unarmed leaves and broadly cylindrical burrs 1-2 cm long with less numerous, sparsely spaced hooked prickles.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Native distribution</p> <p>Pollen and macrofossil evidence suggests that the species is native to the southern temperate zone of Eurasia, stretching from Greece through the Black Sea Basin and the Caspian Sea Basin, including the Middle East and the Caucasus (Opravil 1983). Recent studies of palaeopalynological records indicate that the eastern limit of its native distribution may extend as far eastwards as to Central India, where its pollen was found in sediments dated over 12000 calibrated years before the present (Quamar and Kar 2020). The key area for the species seems to be Asia Minor and the South Caspian Region.</p> <p>In Central Asia, Xanthium strumarium seems to be native in southern Turkmenistan (cf. Nikitin 1960).</p> <p>Secondary distribution</p> <p>The species is an archaeophyte in Europe (including a large part of the Mediterranean), Boreal, Central and probably Tropical Asia; it occurs as a neophyte in North and South America and Australia, where its distribution data may be obscured by the confusion with X. orientale.</p> <p>Although the native distribution of X. strumarium was considered rather uncertain due to its early dispersal by human activities, its archaeophytic occurrence in Central Europe (Lange 1968, Opravil 1983, Sostarić et al. 2009) and a large part of the Mediterranean (Opravil 1983) was proven. In Europe, this species belongs to the most widely distributed alien vascular plants (Lambdon et al. 2008).</p> <p>In north-western China (Xinjiang), according to the pollen data, the species was introduced about 3700 cal. years before the present, with the expansion of the Andronovo culture (Tarasov et al. 2019). The invasion of X. strumarium to Xinjiang corresponded to the introduction of wheat cultivation to the territory (Betts et al. 2014), and Iranian-speaking people of the Androsovo culture seem to have been responsible for both events.</p> <p>Similarly, wheat cultivation was recorded as present some 4300-4000 cal. years before the present in the steppes near the Dzungarian Range, eastern Kazakhstan (Frachetti et al. 2010), likely indicating the corresponding expansion of X. strumarium across Central Asia.</p> <p>The earliest archaeological data from Xinjiang, China (Sheng et al. 2018) recorded the presence and human use of the species 2200-2400 years ago; this record corresponds to the increase of the Xanthium pollen abundance linked with the intensified human activities through the Silk Road trade connections (Tarasov et al. 2019).</p> <p>Wheat cultivation was introduced to Central Asia (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) from Iran and Afghanistan ca. 5000 years ago (Spengler and Willcox 2013), and was most likely accompanied by the corresponding invasion of X. strumarium. The introduction of wheat was accompanied by the spread of sheep and taurine cattle in agro-pastoral cultures developed in piedmont areas along main mountain systems in Central Asia, on the way from Iran to north-western China (Spengler 2015, Stevens et al. 2016), which makes the probability for the arrival of X. strumarium even stronger because this species is a common contaminant of wool and is locally dispersed with sheep and cattle by exozoochory.</p> <p>Preston et al. (2004) hypothesised that the commonly observed decline of archaeophytes, which occurred largely on arable lands and around human settlements, happened "perhaps because new introductions no longer balance the inevitable losses". We think this explanation is highly likely in the case of X. strumarium. Although this species has a clear adaptation to zoochory and is frequently quoted in connection with this fact, in Kyrgyzstan it was most common on fields and in populated places rather than on pastures (Deza 1983), thus indicating that the main vector of its local dispersal was management of arable lands. This management implied a constant arrival of new diaspores through contaminated seed. After the Russian colonisation of Central Asia, the original wheat cultivars were replaced by foreign selections due to the constantly increasing demand for higher yields, and the seed material became imported from remote territories. This change implied that the local circulation of wheat weed seeds had stopped or was at least obstructed.</p> <p>At some point, source fields of the imported wheat seed became infested by X. orientale rather than X. strumarium (cf. Suominen 1979), and new diaspores of X. strumarium no longer arrived to the Central Asian fields. The lack of the outsource renewal, coupled with the constant management of fields and a limited extent of full naturalisation in native habitats, had likely caused a prominent decline of X. strumarium in Central Asia. A similar process had occurred at the same time period in Boreal Europe (e.g. Gudžinskas 1997). In Central Europe, X. spinosum had experienced a similar decline with the recent advancement of agriculture and wool cleaning (e.g. Dudáš and Eliáš Jr. 2021).</p> <p>According to herbarium collections, in Central Asia, X. strumarium was most likely naturalised in steppe areas along rivers, especially in Kazakhstan. In Kyrgyzstan, its naturalised populations were probably concentrated in the north, along the Chü River, which should be explored for relic occurrences of this species; this territory was found climatically suitable for the naturalisation of X. strumarium s.l., based on the data derived from the current invasion of X. orientale (Zhang et al. 2021). In other territories, its former occurrences around fields and populated places seem to have been largely ephemeral.</p> <p>The latest records of X. strumarium are few, and a special effort is required to trace its refugia. We are not aware of any recent collection or observation from Central Asia, whereas one recent specimen was traced from agricultural valleys of northern Xinjiang, China (Fig. 12; Seregin 2021).</p> <p>Distribution in Central Asia</p> <p>The species was present in all the countries of Central Asia (Nabiev 1993).</p> <p>Distribution in Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Western Tian-Shan, Northern Tian-Shan, Eastern Tian-Shan, Alay-Turkestan (Fig. 13).</p> <p>The species has been considered occurring in all parts of the country (Gorbunova 1965, Deza 1983) and was collected from all phytogeographic regions. It occurred in or along all major depressions and valleys.</p> <p>According to herbarium specimens, the species was found at elevations between 650 and 2100 m, thus covering the territories suitable for agriculture.</p> <p>Ecology</p> <p>Same as for Xanthium orientale, but probably less competitive and more confined to steppes rather than to arid depressions; in Central Asia, X. strumarium may reach the altitudes as high as 4000 m (Nabiev 1993). In Kyrgyzstan, both species occurred in the same habitats.</p> <p>Biology</p> <p>Annual.</p> <p>Introduction to Kyrgyzstan</p> <p>Period of introduction</p> <p>Archaeophyte.</p> <p>The species is an archaeophyte of the Neolithic period, which had arrived with a further development of agriculture.</p> <p>Pathways of introduction</p> <p>Transport - Contaminant: Seed contaminant.</p> <p>The species had likely arrived with the cultivation of wheat, which was introduced to present-day Tajikistan and Uzbekistan no later than 5000 years ago (Spengler and Willcox 2013). Further dispersal occurred by domestic animals and water (Ridley 1930).</p> <p>Invasion status</p> <p>Naturalised, not invasive. Historically common and abundant, but likely dependent on human management; currently nearly extinct, but probably still resident in the country (current presence is not confirmed, last record dated 1978).</p> <p>Evidence of impact</p> <p>Agriculture - minor impact (formerly common weed of fields, gardens and pastures, contaminant of wool; currently not recorded). Native ecosystems - minor impact (formerly extensive occurrence along mountain streams and in steppe-like landscapes around populated places; present-day occurrence is not confirmed). Urban areas - minor impact (former ruderal occurrence).</p> <p>Trend</p> <p>Strongly declining (observed).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/60682FD4F31157B5AB69526935718333	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Sennikov, Alexander N.;Lazkov, Georgy A.	Sennikov, Alexander N., Lazkov, Georgy A. (2021): The first checklist of alien vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, with new records and critical evaluation of earlier data. Contribution 1. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: 75590, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e75590
