Guide to the flora of Uzbekistan
a source of information for botanists, plant ecologists, and students
of botany or ecologists working in applied projects
This database contains the following entries:
4432
Species
in Uzbekistan
5 689
herbar sheets
in TASH
132
Families
903
Genera
1978
Herbar scans
3955
Collections
Project goal

The Republic of Uzbekistan is one of the five Central Asian countries and one of worldwide two double land locked countries. With the Soviet Union collapse the long and intensive scientific history interrupted, its institutions disappeared, lost its economic and educational fundament and in the consequence fell behind international development in sciences in general. This is certainly true for the environmental and natural sciences among others botany.

The Institute of Botany Academy of Sciences Republic of Uzbekistan of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences has been lacking sufficient resources to support junior scientists, to conduct expeditions and investigations, to attend international conferences and influence an international or regional scientific debate over the last 25 years. However over the last years new and promising developments are characterizing the IGPPA