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The Council of Russia Botanical Gardens, the Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
The Catalogue of Flower-Decorative Grassy Plants of Botanical Gardens of CIS and the Baltia Countries.
In Russian. Papercover. ISBN 985-6279-03-8
Composed by R.A. Karpisonova
Published by E.S.Galperin, Minsk, Belarus
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For ordering and systematizing the existing knowledge about genofund of flower-decorative plants of USSR, in 1989 at the meeting of florists in Minsk was accepted the decision to prepare a reference book "Cultural flora of decorative grassy plants of USSR". By the first stage, there was a drawing up of the Catalogue of decorative grassy plants growing up in botanical gardens of CIS and the Baltia countries.
In the Catalogue the structure of plants presented in collections of Botanical Gardens of CIS and the Baltia Countries is described. The Catalogue was made on the basis of the lists sent to the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences by botanical gardens and the analysis of the references. 54 experts sent the lists became the authors of the Catalogue. The material from collections of 52 botanical gardens representing all republics of the former USSR has come in it. The Catalogue contains about 17,000 names of taxons -- kinds, versions, grades with the indication of a place of their cultivation. The names of plants concerning 133 families, 968 sorts, 5625 kinds, 11378 grades located on the alphabet of families, sorts, kinds, grades with the indication of a code of a garden where they are growing up, have come in the Catalogue.
The analysis of the list shows that genofund of plants reflected in the catalogue differs by a huge systematic and ecological variety. From the widely submitted families (on number of the names in view of grades) first five positions are occupied by the Asteraceae, Iridaceae, Liliaceae, Paeoniaceae, and Amaryllidaceae. In structure of cultural flora the greatest specific variety is characteristic to next sorts -- Iris (106 kinds), Dianthus (102), Tulipa (84), Aconitum (67), Lilium (56), Paeonia (38). The largest number of grades is totalled by next cultures -- Gladiolus (1248), Tulipa (1233), Iris (1129), Callistephus (1050), Paeonia (620).
Widely in cultural flora are submitted rare kinds of ex-USSR flora. To a category "0" (apparently, missed) 3 kinds are referred (Gladiolus halophilus Boiss. et Heldr., Allium caes-pitosum Siev. ex Bong et Mey., A.pumilum Vved.), each of which is growing up in two gardens. From 25 kinds referred to a category "1" (taking place under threat of disappearance), in one point are growing up only two kinds, others have 5--12 sites in different geographical conditions (from Riga up to Novosibirsk, from St.-Petersburg up to Tbilisi). Thus, many decorative rare kinds not only are kept in culture, but also have expanded areal, and many from them become ancestors of grades.
All names resulted in the Catalogue are carefully verified according to the modern nomenclature. For families and sorts the system of R.K.Brummitt (1992) is used, the kinds of ex-USSR flora are specified according to S.K.Cherepanov (1981, 1995), the names of foreign grades are verified on Check List of the basic cultures. Specific names are accompanied by a surname of the taxon author reduced according to the accepted norms (Brummitt, Powell, 1992).
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