A view on the Chikty Rivulet descending from the southern principal slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range (green plane) in the direction of the Ukok Plateau (blue mountains on the horrizon). A greyish close plain is a montane tundra with dominance of Kobresia myosuroides (Vill.) Fiori et Paol. (Cyperaceae), dark green thickets are dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia Spach; = Betula nana L. ssp. rotundifolia (Spach) Malyshev) tundras.

From a ridge between the headwaters of the Chikty Rivulet 2500 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, the Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 10th July 1998.

O. Kosterin.

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