Calligonum leucocladum

Calligonum leucocladum (many synonyms including Calligonum elegans) is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae. It is native to Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) and to Xinjiang in China.[1] In Uzbekistan, it is limited to the Sokh River basin where it is endangered with a population fragmented by habitat loss from cutting and grazing.[2]

Calligonum leucocladum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Polygonaceae
Genus: Calligonum
Species:
C. leucocladum
Binomial name
Calligonum leucocladum
(Schrenk) Bunge[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Calligonum alatiforme Pavlov
  • Calligonum anfractuosum Bunge
  • Calligonum aralense I.G.Borshch.
  • Calligonum batiola Litv.
  • Calligonum cordipterum Drobow
  • Calligonum elegans Drobow
  • Calligonum gracile Litv.
  • Calligonum integrum Drobow
  • Calligonum karakalpakense Drobow
  • Calligonum leucocladum subsp. elegans (Drobow) Soskov
  • Calligonum lipskyi Litv.
  • Calligonum margelanicum Drobow
  • Calligonum obtusum Litv.
  • Calligonum parvulum Drobow
  • Calligonum patens Litv.
  • Calligonum physopterum Pavlov
  • Calligonum plicatum Pavlov
  • Pterococcus leucocladus Schrenk

References
  1. "Calligonum leucocladum (Schrenk) Bunge". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  2. Participants of the FFI/IUCN SSC Central Asian Regional Tree Red Listing Workshop, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (11-13 July 2006). 2007. Calligonum elegans. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007. Downloaded on 30 October 2015.
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