Floristic characteristics of woody plants in the Beita Mountain of Xinjiang

This study aimed to collect and identify the flora of Beita Mountain in Xinjiang. The research showed that there are 71 species of woody plants belonging to 41 genera in 21 families in this area, including 6 species of gymno-species belonging to 3 genera in 3 families and 65 species of angiosperms belonging to 38 genera in 18 families. Among the families, 7 families were each represented by a single species, while 11 families were each represented by 2~9 species, and the family Chenopodiaceae was represented by 15 species. Among the genera, 24 genera were each represented by a single species, while 17 genera were each represented by 2~4 species. The geographical distribution of the flora in this area is complex, exhibiting 5 distributional types and 3 subtypes at the genera level that mainly corresponded to variants of temperate floral distributions.