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Table 5 Other utility plants

From: Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900

Scientific name

Use

Poacynum pictum (Schrenk) Baill.

Fibres for clothes and fishnets, medicine, bride- wealth

Arundinella nepalensis Trin.

Baskets, mats

Populus euphratica Olivier

Construction material, utensils, tools

Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin ex. Steud.

Construction material, fuel, beds

Myricaria germanica (L.) Desv.

Fuel

Myricaria davurica (Willd.) Ehrenb.

Fuel

Tamarix androssowii Litv.

Fuel

Alhagi kirghisorum Schrenk

Forage, fuel

Lactuca tatarica (L.) C.A. Mey.

Forage

Krascheninnikovia ceratoides (L.) Gueldenst.

Forage, fuel

Ephedra przewalskii Stapf

Folk medicine