Representative examples of the described plant communities developed on floodplains and lake terraces in the Eastern Pamir.

(A) salt marshes dominated by Blysmus rufus; (B) saline small sedge meadows dominated by Carex orbicularis and Carex microglochin; (C) grasslands with Hordeum brevisubulatum and Puccinellia species; (D) saline meadows with Kobresia royleana and Primula pamirica; (E) xerohalophytic vegetation with Krascheninnikovia ceratoides and Polygonum sibiricum var. thomsonii, (F) mosaic of plant communities on the terraces around Rangkul lake.