The bank of a large brackish (calcium and magnium carbonates) Lake Zun-Torei, residing in Dahurian (S Transbaikalian) short-grass steppes. The lake flutcuate down to almost dissapearing with a cycle about 30 years, now it's on the maximum. The bank is grown up with Senecio congestus (R.Br.) DC. (= Senecio arcticus Rupr.), and the reed (Phragmitis australis (Gav.) Trin ex Steudel.)

The lake SW corner at the cordone Bulum-Khuduk, Onon district, Chita Region, S Transbaikalia (Dahuria), Siberia, Russia. 7th July 1996. O. Kosterin