Context: Five species of the genus Ajuga (Lamiaceae) having common name "bugle" are found in Iran. In Persian medicine (PM), (Kamaphytus) is used for treating jaundice, joint pain, gout, amenorrhea, sciatica, and wound healing. This study aimed to review ethnobotanical, phytochemical, biological activities that grow Iran determine their therapeutic potentials suggest further studies on healing ...

smirnovia iranica, a native valuable woody species from fabaceae, is an adaptable plant of central sandy areas of iran. on other hand, this species could be markedly considered from different view points of forage production, soil conservation and medicinal applications. the current research was carried out in band-e-rig of kashan, iran to evaluate smirnovia iranica properties including crude p...

The Leguminosae (Fabaceae) is the second-largest family of flowering plants and contains 657 genera and about 16400 species. It includes more important drugs than any other family. Apart from a report on description of the species in Iran, the literature lists only reports of photosynthesis and carbon dioxide exchange in the plant, and also three reports on isolation of alkaloids named smirnovi...

Bromus sect. Triniusa is revised in Khorassan based on the new taxonomic concepts of Bromus danthoniae complex group and a remarkable herbarium material collected from Khorassan (Kopetdagh, northeastern Iran), as the main center of its diversity. Bromus turcomanicus, a narrow endemic species in central Kopetdagh hitherto known only from the type locality in southern Turkmenistan, is newly recor...

Numerical analysis of Saxifraga in Iran was carried out on the basis of morphological and chorological data. The cluster analysis confirmed that the genus in Iran includes two distinct groups: Group one consists of two subgroups, a) alpine Irano-Turanian endemic species (S. ramsarica, S. iranica, S. wendelboi, S. koelzii), and b) Euxino-Hyrcanian species (S. paniculata subsp. Cartilaginea, S. k...