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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Hochschulschriftenserver - Universität Frankfurt am Main Orthotrichum in Pakistan 1 Tropical Bryology 21:1-9, 2002 Orthotrichum (Orthotrichaceae, Bryopsida) in Pakistan Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp Mittlere Letten 11, D-88634 Herdwangen-Schönach, Germany Johann Peter Gruber University of Salzburg, Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden Hellbrunnerstraße 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria Abstract: A first critical survey of the genus Orthotrichum in Pakistan is provided. The currently known geographical distributions of the species and their ecologies within Pakistan are discussed. The bryophyte collection from Pakistan contains eight species of the genus Orthotrichum. One of these, O. obtusifolium, is reported here for the first time from that country, whilst the occurrence of the other seven species is confirmed. Pseudoleskeella tectorum, associated with O. crenulatum, is also reported here from Pakistan for the first time. Comments on the specimens and a key to allow identification of all eleven species presently known from Pakistan are provided. Introduction species, restricted to those species occurring in Pakistan and some adjacent areas. The bryophyte flora of Pakistan is very poorly known. There are only a few scattered literature In North Pakistan distribution of the genus reports, such as the checklists of the mosses of Orthotrichum is restricted to the partly open Asghar (1957) and Nishimura & Higuchi (1993, wooded, mainly northfacing ranges of the 1994), and the bibliography of Pakistan mosses Himalaya and Hindu Kush mountains by Townsend (1993). In these reports, listings of (Waziristan, Kohistan, Swat, Pakistan Northern Orthotrichum species remain incomplete. During Areas, Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, fig. 1), from field studies in Pakistan in 1998, one of us (J. P. an elevation of 1530 m up to the timberline (c. G.) collected bryophyte specimens, among which 3800 m), (epilithic species such as O. rupestre 14 were samples of the genus Orthotrichum. Here up to 5000 m, see tab. 1). At lower altitudes these we provide a first complete outline of this genus habitats are characteristically coniferous including an annoted key to identification of woodlands intermixed with deciduous trees and TROPICAL BRYOLOGY 21 (2002) 2 Schäfer-Verwimp & Gruber sclerophyllous Quercus baloot-wood, and the dry; capsules immersed to emergent; usually himalayan birch (Betula utilis) at higher altitudes growing as epiphytes 5 (Hussain & Ilahi 1991). 4 Capsules immersed to slightly emergent, ovoid to ellipsoid, furrowed at least in upper A number of different field sites were examinated part when dry; leaves sometimes partly (Peer et al 2002), but Orthotrichum-species were bistratose; hairs of calyptra reaching beyond found at only 2 localities. the top O. rupestre These are defined as follows: 4' Capsules long exserted, cylindric, smooth (rarely striate) when dry; leaves never (1) Pakistan Northern Areas; Gilgit NW, Naltar bistratose; hairs of calyptra not reaching the valley, Naltar lakes (altitude 3050-3150 m); 2 top July 1998. The area consists of moraines of O. laevigatum [incl. var. japonicum] granitic and slaty components and alpine pasture 5 Capsules immersed, oblong to ovoid; 16 with a glacial creek. The vegetation is exostome teeth, lanceolate, strongly predominately Betula utilis, altough on dry, recurved; 16 endostome segments, broad higher parts relictic Juniperus semiglobosa-trees lanceolate; calyptra campanulate are found and in lower parts of the valley Pinus O. striatum wallichiana-Picea smithiana-woodland occurs. 5' Capsules immersed to emergent to slightly exserted, ±cylindric; exostome of 8 pairs of (2) Pakistan Northern Areas; Baltistan, Astor S, teeth; 8 endostome segments, lanceolate; Rupal valley, Tarishing S, Chhichi gol; 8 July calyptra conic to conic-oblong 6 1998. The dominant vegetation species are Pinus 6 Capsules immersed to emergent, strongly wallichiana and Picea smithiana (altitude 2700- furrowed when dry; calyptra conic-oblong 3200 m). The Orthotrichum specimens were to long conic, naked or with a few hairs; collected from open woodland with alpine pasture exostome teeth strongly reflexed when dry; (O. alpestre, O. cupulatum, and O. laevigatum). leaf apex often broadly acute O. affine 6' Capsules emergent to slightly exserted, Key to the species of Orthotrichum presently smooth or slightly furrowed in upper half known from Pakistan and some adjacent when dry; calyptra conic-oblong, often areas * densely hairy, exostome teeth recurved, not reflexed; leaf apex narrowly acute (hitherto 1 Plants usually with numerous brood bodies not known from Pakistan on both leaf surfaces; dioicous, most often O. speciosum without capsules; leaves at apex broadly 7 Exostome teeth erect-spreading when dry obtuse (if with capsules, these strongly (very rarely reflexed in O. cupulatum); furrowed and stomata superficial) endostome rarely present (present in O. O. obtusifolium urnigerum); most often growing on rocks 1' Brood bodies absent or few; plants 8 autoicous, often with capsules; leaves at 7' Exostome teeth recurved or reflexed when apex acute or rounded acute, never broadly dry; endostome always well developed; obtuse 2 often growing as epiphytes (O. alpestre also 2 Stomata superficial 3 on rocks) 10 2 Stomata immersed 7 8 Capsules clearly exserted, oblong 3 Exostome teeth erect-spreading when dry cylindrical to cylindrical; calyptra conic- (very rarely reflexed in O. laevigatum, this oblong species with distinctly exserted capsules); O. anomalum usually found growing on rocks 4 8' Capsules immersed to slightly emergent, 3' Exostome teeth recurved or reflexed when ovoid to urceolate; calyptra campanulate 9 TROPICAL BRYOLOGY 21 (2002) Orthotrichum in Pakistan 3 9 Vaginula naked or with a few hyaline hairs; Pakistan, O. speciosum Nees (in valle Gudhai; endostome segments lacking; capsules with Brotherus, 1898) and O. urnigerum Myr. (Gulmarg, 16 striae (normally 8 long and 8 shorter Liddarwat; Brotherus, 1898; Lewinsky 1992, p.55). ones) These two species are included in the key. O. cupulatum 9' Vaginula with numerous golden-yellow Comments on the specimens hairs; 8 or 16 endostome segments, well developed; capsules with 8 strongly The original specimens are deposited in the developed striae and 8 intermediate striae private Herbarium of Gruber, in Salzburg, very weak or lacking (hitherto not known Austria. A set of duplicates is in the Herbarium from Pakistan) Schäfer-Verwimp, Germany. O. urnigerum 10 Calyptra with scattered to numerous 1. Orthotrichum alpestre Hornsch. ex B. S. G., papillose hairs reaching over the top; leaf Bryol. Eur. 3 (fasc. 2/3), Orthotrichum Suppl. 1: cells strongly papillose, papillae usually 1. 1849. forked; leaf margins sharply crenulate by Specimens examined: Naltar valley, protruding papillae; stomata almost epiphyte on Betula utilis, Gruber 2066; admixed completely covered; spores 9-16 µm to O. laevigatum var. japonicum, Gruber 2062pp; O. alpestre admixed to O. striatum, Gruber 2058. Rupal 10' Calyptra naked or with a few smooth hairs; valley, on rock, mixed with O. cupulatum, Gruber leaf cells smooth or with rather low papillae, 2101. leaf margins entire or crenulate only near O. alpestre may be distinguished from leaf apex; stomata almost free of or only ½ related or similar species in the area by emergent (to 2/ ) covered by subsidiary cells; spores or just exserted, strongly furrowed capsules with 14-183 µm 11 reflexed exostome and almost completely 11 Leaves ligulate to oblong-lanceolate; leaf covered stomata. The leaf cells are often strongly apex partly broadly obtuse, partly rounded papillose, the leaf margins sharply crenulate from acute or acute; leaf margins often crenulate protruding papillae. All specimens are typical for near the apex this species. O. crenulatum Distribution: O. alpestre is known from 11' Leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong- western N America, Greenland, Europe, North lanceolate, never ligulate; leaf margins and Central Asia, as well as from the northern entire near the apex 12 parts of India and Pakistan. In Pakistan it appears 12 Leaves broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, to be one of most commonly occuring species of often apiculate with a hyaline apical cell; 8 the genus, at least in the areas visited (seen in endostome segments; stomata partly nearly four collections). First and single previous record uncovered, partly ½-covered or more by for Pakistan by Lewinsky (1992). Distribution subsidiary cells map in Lewinsky (1993, fig. 28). O. pumilum 12' Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or 2. Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw., Spec. Musc. narrowly obtuse, not apiculate; 16 (8 +8) 162. 1801. endostome segments, the intermediate ones Specimen examined: Naltar valley, on often less well developed; stomata most rock, Gruber 2061. often uncovered or very slightly covered by Both O. anomalum and O. laevigatum subsidiary cells occur primarily on rocks, have long exserted, O. pallens ±cylindrical capsules and erect to spreading exostome teeth. However, O. anomalum is * In the adjacent areas of Jammu and Kashmir (under readily distinguished from the latter as it has Indian administration), two further species have been immersed stomata and always furrowed capsules. reported which may also be expected to occur in Distribution: O. anomalum is widely TROPICAL BRYOLOGY 21 (2002) 4 Schäfer-Verwimp & Gruber distributed in the northern hemisphere and seems O. urnigerum Myr., which may also be expected