{"id":1424953,"date":"2017-01-15T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:53:27","slug":"ephedra-regeliana","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/ephedra-regeliana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephedra regeliana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ephedra<\/i> regeliana<\/i> Florin, Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl. III, 12(1): 17 1933<\/em>. (syn: Ephedra<\/font><\/i> <\/font>monosperma<\/font><\/i> <\/font>var.<\/font><\/span> <\/font>disperma<\/font><\/i> <\/font>Regel<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/a>; Ephedra<\/font><\/i> <\/font>pulvinaris<\/font><\/i> <\/font>V.A.Nikitin<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/a>; Ephedra<\/font><\/i> <\/font>pulvinaris<\/font><\/i> <\/font>V. Nikit.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/a>);<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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C. Asia to SW. Siberia and Pakistan<\/font> as per WCSP<\/font><\/a>;<\/div>\n
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Afghanistan, China, N India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan<\/font> as per Flora of China<\/font><\/a>;<\/div>\n
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Occurs across Central Asia from southwestern Siberia (Russian Federation) to Pakistan and west to Afghanistan and Kazakhstan. Recorded from 700 m up to 4,000 m.<\/font><\/div>\n

Reported as common.<\/font><\/div>\n
A shrub, found growing in semi-desert and steppe habitat, on mountain slopes, rocky, gravelly areas, amongst pebbles of dried river beds and sandy areas.<\/font> Flowers from June to July.<\/font><\/div>\n
The stems of most members of this genus contain the alkaloid ephedrine and are valuable in the treatment of asthma and many other complaints of the respiratory system (Plants for a Future 2010).<\/font> <\/div>\n
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Citation:<\/td>\nBell, A. & Bachman, S. 2011. Ephedra regeliana<\/i>. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T201679A9163021. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2305\/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T201679A9163021.en<\/font><\/a>. <\/span>Downloaded on 15 January 2017.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Re: Ephedra regeliana Florin – New to eFI<\/a> : 1 post by 1 author.<\/span><\/div>\n
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As “light relief” from more complicated\u00a0and time-consuming genera combined with the pleasure of viewing ‘habitat’ images in the mountains, I have been taking a further look at\u00a0specimens photographed in Baltistan<\/font> (part of which is in the Karakoram Range not the ‘Himalaya’ or ‘TransHimalaya’). <\/div>\n
In an attempt to improve understanding of the DIFFICULT genus identification-wise, Ephedra<\/em>, I am providing a link to fine images of what I currently understand to be E.regeliana<\/em>, which is new to eFI.<\/div>\n
See Marijn’s fine images: http:\/\/photos.v-d-brink.eu\/<\/font>Flora-and-Fauna\/Asia\/Pakistan-<\/font>new\/i-V8t3LMG<\/font><\/a>\u00a0plus the two previous images showing a wonderful expanse.<\/div>\n
‘Flowers of the Himalaya’ does not cover this species.<\/div>\n
Stewart lists E.regeliana<\/em> from Baltistan and the Indus Valleys.
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Klimes found this species in coarse sandy steppe often amongst large boulders, in rocky and stony sem-deserts.<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
I suspect this species is under-recorded in parts of Ladakh probably mistaken for E.gerardiana<\/em> or E.intermedia<\/em>.\u00a0
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Now that attention has been drawn to it, hopefully members visiting Ladakh will look out for it and post good close-up images in the years to come.<\/font><\/p>\n
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Ephedra regeliana Florin, Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl. III, 12(1): 17 1933. (syn: Ephedra monosperma var. disperma Regel; Ephedra pulvinaris V.A.Nikitin; Ephedra pulvinaris V. Nikit.); C. Asia to SW. Siberia and Pakistan as per WCSP; Afghanistan, China, N India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan as per Flora of China; Occurs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5326],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1424953","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-ephedra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1424953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1424953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1424953"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1424953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}