Huron Mountain Club Bryophyte and Lichen Collection Deposited at Northern Michigan University
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2008 THE MICHIGAN BOTANIST 67 HURON MOUNTAIN CLUB BRYOPHYTE AND LICHEN COLLECTION DEPOSITED AT NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY Dr. William R. Manierre Huron Mountain Club N 4700 Co. Rd. KK Post Office Box 70 Big Bay, Michigan 49808 734-663-3967 ABSTRACT This paper reports the transfer of the Manierre collection of nonvascular plants from the Huron Mountain Club to the Herbarium of Northern Michigan University in Marquette where, upon appli- cation, it is now available for scientific study. The collection contains specimens of 701 species or near species of mosses, liverworts, lichens and hornworts in approximately 291 genera including a large number of rarities—all collected within the 20,000 acres of the protected lands of the Huron Mountain Club. The timing of this announcement is peculiarly appropriate as the threat of sulfide mining at the headwaters of the Salmon Trout River becomes increasingly imminent. My extensive collection of bryophytes and lichens collected over the course of 20 years at the Huron Mountain Club (Marquette County, Michigan) has been placed in the Herbarium of Northern Michigan University (NMU). Value of this collection results, in part, from limitation to a specific area of approximately 20,000 acres well known for the biodiversity of their old growth forests, the pu- rity of their lakes and streams, and their unique geology (Wilson 1990). The large number of taxa represented here and the high degree of rarity among them suggest the environmental importance of this protected private holding. The collection contains 290 species or near species of mosses, 83 of liver- worts, 327 of lichens and a lone hornwort Phaeoceros laevis (L.). Thus, this holding represents slightly more mosses than the Keweenaw Peninsula (Glime & Slavick 1985), more lichens than the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (Wet- more 1988), 67% of the lichens reported from Isle Royale National Park (Wet- more 1985), and no less than 80 species not yet reported from that fertile loca- tion which is approximately seven times larger than the Club. The Huron Mountain Club is presently the only known existing location in the Western Hemisphere for the moss Gyroweisia reflexa (Brid.) Schimp. (Manierre 1998) and the finding there in 1998 of Caloplaca invadens Lynge (Manierre 1999b) marks the first time this lichen has been found within the lower 48 states. Eight additional taxa were reported here as “first finds for the state of Michigan”: the mosses Bryum alpinum Huds. ex With. (Manierre 2001b), Eurynchium praelongum (Hedw.) Schimp. in B.S.G. (Manierre 1999b), Grimmia anodon Bruch & Schimp. (Manierre 1999a), Grimmia donniana Sm. (Manierre 2001b), Leskea polycarpa Hedw. (Manierre 1999a), Physcomitrium immersum Sull. (Manierre 1999a), Pseudoleskeela sibirica (Arnell) P. Wils. & 68 THE MICHIGAN BOTANIST Vol. 47 Norris (Manierre 1999b) and the lichen Solorina spongiosa (Ach.) Anzi. (Manierre 1999b) (see cover). As further indication of the botanical richness of this venue I cite the follow- ing ten additional rarities: Bryum muehlenbeckii Bruch & Schimp. (Manierre 1999a), Ephemerum spinulosum Bruch & Schimp. (Manierre 1999a), Fabronia ciliaris (Brid.) Brid. var. ciliaris (Manierre 1999a), Gyroweisia tenuis (Hedw.) Schimp. (Manierre 1999a), Philonotis capillaris Lindb. in Hartm. (Manierre 1999a), Seligeria campylopoda Kindb. in Mac. & Kindb. (Manierre 1999a), Sphagnum quinquefarium (Lindb. ex Braithw.) Warnst. (Manierre 1999b), Sphagnum ripariium Aöngst. (Manierre 1999b) for the mosses and Phaeoceros laevis (L.) Prosk. subsp. laevis (Manierre 1999a) and Lophozia obtusa (Lindb.) Evans (Manierre 1999a) for the hornworts and liverworts respectively. Speci- mens of the above rarities for Upper Michigan are in the Herbarium of the Uni- versity of Michigan except for Caloplaca invadens, Lophozia obtusa and Fabro- nia ciliaris my collections of which being too small for division. Identifications were scrupulously attended to. By far the most were made by Dr. Howard Crum of the University of Michigan whose many contributions to the project made it possible and whose death in 2002 brought it to an end. I would collect at Huron Mountain for six months each summer and identify what I could. During the remaining six months of the year I would meet weekly in Ann Arbor with Dr. Crum in his University of Michigan Herbarium office where we would ponder together at meetings of two to three hours each over taxa that had proved too difficult for me. This routine continued for better than fifteen years during which Dr. Crum gave to the project an estimated seven hundred hours of his personal time. He examined just about every item in the collec- tion—probably 95% of the bryophytes and a large portion of the lichens—not to mention the lone hornwort which particularly pleased him. Dr. Crum was somewhat less sure of the lichens and, while identifying many of these himself, he would occasionally send difficult ones to other specialists in order to obtain the greatest accuracy possible. Among these are the following, to each of whom most sincere thanks are due and herewith tendered: Bruce Allen, Irwin M. Brodo, William R. Buck, Alan M. Fryday, Richard C. Harris, Norton G. Miller, John W. Thomson, Dale H. Vitt, Clifford M. Wetmore, and special thanks for technical assistance and advice to Dr. Dana L. Richter of Michigan Technological University. A complete list of bryophyte and lichen species found at the Huron Mountain Club is provided in the Appendix and can also be viewed by visiting the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation website, http://www.hmwf.org. Specimens of all taxa on the list are held in the Herbarium NMU with the exception of 18 lichens that were collected in 1949 and 1976 by Henry A. Imshaug and James Mala- chowske. Of these, 16 are deposited at MSC while two are at MICH where are also found duplicates of some of the rarer items mentioned in this paper. Further information regarding this collection is available upon request to Dr. Alan Re- bertus, Curator of the Herbarium, Biology Department, Northern Michigan Uni- versity, Marquette, MI 49855, email [email protected], TEL. 906-227-2351. Coincidentally, this announcement, submitted for publication to The Michigan Botanist, follows close upon the appearance on the “Web” of Professor Kerry D. 2008 THE MICHIGAN BOTANIST 69 Woods’ “All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of the Huron Mountain Club,” which in- cludes 4321 “documented species”. This inventory culminates approximately one hundred years of increasingly serious scientific activity at that location and, lat- terly, through the auspices of the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation. Dr. Woods stresses that the “Inventory” is not a finished product. Rather, it is ongoing, subject to continual revision; addition, correction, and where necessary reduction as species die out or simply disappear. With this in mind, it is reasonable to hope that government supported sulfide mining in The Yellowdog Plains, adjacent to the Huron Mountain Club, does not spell “culminate” with a capital “C”. LITERATURE CITED Glime, J. M. and A. D. Slavick. (1985) A Checklist of Bryophytes and their Critical Localities in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. The Michigan Botanist 24: 153–163. Manierre, W. R. (1998) Gyroweisia reflexa, a Moss New for the United States. Evansia 15: 30–31. Manierre, W. R. (1999a) Interesting Bryophytes in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Evansia 16: 68–73. Manierre, W. R. (1999b) Bryophytes and Lichens of the Huron Mountain Club. Evansia 16: 152–166. Manierre, W. R. (2001a) Additions to the Lichen Flora of the Huron Mountain Club. Evansia 18: 51–52. Manierre, W. R. (2001b) Bryum alpinum and Grimmia donniana, New to Michigan. Evansia 18: 60–61. Manierre, W. R. (2002) Bryophytes and Lichens of the Huron Mountain Club, Conclusion. Evansia 19: 131–136. Wetmore, C. M. (1985) Lichens and Air Quality in Isle Royale National Park. Final Report. National Park Service Contract CX 0001-2-0034. 1–40. Wetmore, C. M. (1988) Lichens and Air Quality in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. National Park Service Contract CX 0001-22-0034 and USDI-PX6000-7-0731. 1–25. Wilson, G. C. (1990) Late Archean Structural Evolution and Keweenawan and Cambrian Structure and Sedimentation in the Huron Mountains, Marquette County, Michigan. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin–Madison Woods, K. D. (Compiler). (2007). An all-taxa biodiversity inventory of the Huron Mountain Club. Occasional Publications of the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation, No. 5. Version: August 2007. http://www.hmwf.org/species_list.php APPENDIX MOSSES, LIVERWORTS, & HORNWORTS Sphagnum magellanicum Phylum BRYOPHYTA Sphagnum magus Class Sphagnopsida Sphagnum papillosum Order Sphagnales Sphagnum pulchrum Family Sphagnaceae Sphagnum pulustre Sphagnum angustifolium Sphagnum quinquefarium Sphagnum capillifolium Sphagnum recurvum Sphagnum centrale Sphagnum riparium Sphagnum compactum Sphagnum rubellum Sphagnum contortum Sphagnum russowii Sphagnum cuspidatum Sphagnum squarrosum Sphagnum fallax Sphagnum subsecundum Sphagnum fimbriatum Sphagnum tenellum Sphagnum fuscum Sphagnum tenerum Sphagnum girgensohnii Sphagnum teres Sphagnum lescurii Sphagnum warnstorfii 70 THE MICHIGAN BOTANIST Vol. 47 Sphagnum wulfianum Schistidium apocarpum Class Andreaeopsida Schistidium rivulare var. rivulare Order Andreaeales Order Seligeriales Family Andreaeaceae Family Seligeriaceae Andreaea rothii Blindia acuta Andreaea rupestris Seligeria campylopoda Andreaea rupestris var. papillosa Seligeria pusilla Class Bryopsida Seligeria recurvata Order Tetraphidales