Acknowledgements

The financial support from Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants: 96-04-48264, 03-04-63169-k, 04-04-63069-k, 05-04-48669, 06-04-63042-k), State Program "Biological Diversity" (1997-98, 2003-2006) and International Scientific Fund of D.Soros (1992-1993) is gratefully acknowledged.

The author expresses also the sincere gratitude to everyone who more than for the 20-years period to some extent took part in accumulation of lively, herbarious and information materials which studying is summarized on this site. Especially important results have brought the lively plants received from the majority of listed below colleagues, and also the help of L.S.Krasovskaya at cultivation of the lively collection in Parkent, Tashkent and St.-Petersburg. I consider as the duty to list collectors and the advisers who have rendered versatile support at performance of the given project:

M.V.Agababian, Ð.À.Aidarova †, Z.R.Alferova, S.I.Ali, V.Amel'chenko, S.Banketov, M.V.Baranova, V.Ju.Barkalov, M.G.Baturina, E.Bidois, V.P.Bochantsev †, A.L.Budantsev, L.L.Bulgakova, R.I.Burda, V.V.Byalt, S.K.Cherepanov †, O.V.Cherneva, M.B.Chernobaeva, I.I.Chornei, V.G.Danilevich, M.T.Davlianidze, A.V.Dengubenko, S.A.D'yachenko, J.Edmondson, T.V.Egorova †, G.M.Faivush, G.A.Firsov, E.Fotteler, N.V.Friesen, R.M.Fritsch, N.Ts.Gabrielyan, G.Gaffarov, A.P.Genov, D.A.German, F.Ghahremani-Nejad, S.Ghazanfar, P.V.Golyakov, T.G.Gorelova, R.Govaerts, M.Gregory, W.Greuter, I.Yu.Gubareva, G.M.Gular'yants, V.S.Gumech, A.Haigh, C.C.Hein †, H.Henker, T.V.Isakova, A.A.Ivashchenko, V.I.Ivlev, Ch.Jaffry, Ñ.Jarvis, A.A.Kagalo, R.V.Kamelin, L.N.Kamenskikh, N.Kh.Karmysheva, A.E.Katenin, A.O.Khaare, S.S.Kharkevich †, F.O.Khasanov, V.N.Khramtsov, G.K.Kinzikaeva, M.E.Kirpichnikov †, L.Klimes, G.L.Komakhina, G.Yu.Konechnaya, P.A.Kosachev, V.N.Kosenko †, Yu.A.Kotukhov, T.V.Krestovskaya, S.G.Kudrin, A.N.Kupriyanov, L.A.Kuznetsov, A.N.Lavrenko †, G.A.Laz'kov, A.Lorenz, S.M.Maassoumi, V.A.Malakhov, I.I.Mal'tsev, A.V.Medvedeva, A.D.Mikheev, L.P.Mironova, R.Moberg, E.Mukhina, R.Murtazaliev, M.M.Nabiev, N.N.Nadel', V.A.Nedoluzhko †, E.S.Neskryabina, D.Nicholson, V.N.Nikiforova, J.Nurmi, V.M.Ostapko, S.Owens, G.N.Pankratova, S.L.Panov, T.V.Parshikova, A.Peterson, J.Peterson, M.G.Pimenov, T.N.Popova, N.N.Portenier †, L.V.Poyarkova, U.P.Pratov, Sz.Priszter, K.H.Rechinger †, N.M.Reshetnikova, L.E.Ryff, G.E.Safonov, M.Sakhokiya, S.V.Saksonov, E.A.Sautin, A.Seisums, A.P.Seregin, A.L.Shavarda, A.Sharipov, N.A.Shaul'skaya, A.I.Shmakov, K.K.Shrestha, T.V.Sidorova, V.Smetanin, A.G.Smirnov, S.V.Smirnov, V.V.Smirnova, A.Smith, R.Soldatova, A.A.Solov'ev, A.P.Sukhorukov, B.A.Sultanova, O.A.Svyazeva, A.L.Takhtajan, K.G.Tamanyan, A.A.Tikhomirov, V.N.Tikhomirov †, W.Till, J.-M.Tison, I.Togaev, N.N.Tsvelev, O.Yu.Umanetz, E.Vitek, F.M.Vorob'eva, O.V.Yakovleva, N.N.Zabinkova †, O.I.Zakhar'eva, M.Zarrei, V.S.Zhmikhova, O.V.Znamenskii, N.I.Zolotukhin, S.L.Zonshtein.