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Flora of Middle Asia is very rich with about 9800 species of vascular plants. Uzbekistan as a part of this territory possesses ca 4500 species. The country has a central position in the region and can be treated as one of the main centers of medicinal plants diversities because of high percentage of local endemism. About 600 species of medicinal plants are used in Uzbekistan for the treatment of numerous diseases. Some endemic plants are used for the production of medicines at industrial scale but are at the same time proposed by local hakims.
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Khojimatov, O.K., Khassanov, F.O. (2022). An Overview of Common Medicinal Plants of Middle Asia. In: Öztürk, M., Khan, S.M., Altay, V., Efe, R., Egamberdieva, D., Khassanov, F.O. (eds) Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainability in Asia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73943-0_43
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