| Family | EPHEDRACEAE |
| Genus species | Ephedra gerardiana Wall. ex Klotzsch & Garcke |
| Bibliography | Bot. Ergebn. Reise Waldemar: 32 (1862) |
| Native Range | sw. Siberia to Afghanistan and Himalaya |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Altitude | 2300-5300m |
| Description | branchlets dark green, male flowers 4-6, in spike, female with 1-2 flowers and 3-4-pairs of bracts, fruit spherical, 5-8mm long, bright red |
| Size | 10-15cm |
| Color | yellowish |
| Bloom | early summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | subshrub |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring layering in spring |
| Synonyms | Ephedra gerardiana var. congesta C.Y.Cheng Ephedra gerardiana var. wallichii Stapf |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, TVA Tuva) 32 Middle Asia (TZK Tadzhikistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) 36 China (CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal, PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |