TITLE:
Poisonous Plants of the Karakalpak Part of the Ustyurt Plateau (Uzbekistan)
AUTHORS:
Aymuratov Rapat, Abduraimov Ozodbek, Shomurodov Habibullo, Abduraimov Azizbek, Adilov Bekzod
KEYWORDS:
Ustyurt Plateau, Species, Poisonous, Desert, Climate Change
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Plant Sciences,
Vol.15 No.2,
February
8,
2024
ABSTRACT: The article presents the composition and current state of poisonous
plants distributed on the Ustyurt plateau. Ustyurt is one of the largest
deserts in Central Asia, differing from other deserts of the world in
geographical location, relief, flora and fauna and other features. The
territory of Ustyurt occupies 21.3 million hectares, of which the Karakalpak
part accounts for 7.2 million hectares. Poisonous alkaloid-bearing plants of
the Karakalpak part of the Ustyurt plateau Anabasis
aphylla, Atriplex flabellum, Kalidium capsicum, Salsola
arbusculaeformis, Salsola foliosa, Aellenia subaphylla, Anabasis brachiata,
Rheum tataricum, Capparis spinosa, Glycyrrhiza aspera. Alkaloid-bearing plants that are not eaten or poorly eaten by
cattle Ephedra distachya, Delphinium songaricum, Anabasis salsa,
alkaloid-bearing plants eaten by animals without harm Carex
physodes, Eremopyrum orientale, Agrophyllum repens, Astragalus amodendron, Astragalus
villosissimus, species of the
genera Calligonum, Salsola.
Poisonous plants of the Karakalpak part of the Ustyurt plateau. An analysis of
the pasture flora of the Karakalpak part of the Ustyurt plateau shows that 62
species of wild poisonous plants belonging to 49 genera and 19 families grow here. Although these plants are
considered poisonous, but in modern
pharmaceutics and medicine, they are used as medicinal.