Plagiobasis is a genus of Asian plants in the thistle tribe, also known Cynareae, within the daisy family but is better known as the thistle and The only known species is Plagiobasis centuroides, native to Kazakhstan which is a transcontinental country mainly located in Central Asia, and the countries that border it Kyrgyzstan Xinjiang, and Altai Krai.
It covers a land area of 2,724,900 square kilometres (1,052,100 sq mi), and shares land borders with Russia in the north, China in the east, and Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in the south while also adjoining a large part of the Caspian Sea in the southwest. 
Xinjiang (Uyghur: , SASM/GNC: Xinjang; Chinese: ; pinyin: Xinjiang; alternately romanized as Sinkiang), officially Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country close to Central Asia. 
