Zygophyllaceae FAMILY

Zygophyllum oxianum

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

3/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Zygophyllum oxianum is a herbaceous perennial plant growing from a robust, woody rootstock; it produces around 3 - 5 erect stems that branch mostly above and grow around 30 - 50cm tall[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of fuel.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeCentral and western Asia - Iran, Kazakhstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan

HabitatClayey, solonetzic and solonchak soils, sandy hills, saline loamy soils, mostly on floodplains, and in oases of desert and semidesert zones and as weed on roads and wastelands; at elevations up to the middle mountaine belt[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. , 2031 Title Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Central Asia and Altai Publication Author Batsatsashvili K., Kikvidze Z. & Bussmann R.W. (Eds) Website https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28947-8 Publisher Springer Nature; Switzerland Year 2020 ISBN 978-3-030-28946-1 Description ]