Home – Home – Jornals – Flora and Vegetation of Asian Russia 2021 number 1

The history of the taxonomic study of species of the genus Galium L. (Rubiaceae) in Asian Russia is considered. Systems of the genus and the position of species within these systems are discussed. The main systems are A.P. de Candolle, E.G. Pobedimova, A.G. Elenevsky et al. It was revealed that C. Linnaei described the genus Galium in “Species Plantarum”. The first system of the genus was developed by A.P. de Candolle, in which he distinguished 13 sections. The system of the genus, proposed by E.G. Pobedimova, includes 93 species, united in 11 sections, 5 subsections and 19 series. E.G. Elenevsky et al. revised the volume of a number of sections, described 3 new sections, and one section was given as a new combination. Their system of the genus Galium contains 46 species, which are distributed in 21 sections. G. Gmelin, C. F. Ledebour, N.S. Turczaninow, K.J. Maximowicz, V.L. Komarov, P.N. Krylov, N.N. Tsvelev. It is shown that regional floristic summaries have expanded knowledge about the morphology, geography and ecology of species of the genus Galium in Asian Russia.