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In Search of the Yulong Pincushion and Delavay's Prongwort BryophytesAbroad In search of the Yulong Pincushion and Delavay’s Prongwort v West flank of the Yulong Shan. David Gray David Long, he Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh which David Chamberlain was the first to make of Sciences collected around 7,700 bryophyte David Bell and (RBGE) has a long history of bryophyte collections. On the next expedition, specimens in the Burmese border region of botanical exploration in western the ‘Chungtien-Lijiang-Dali’ (CLD) expedition Yunnan (Long, 2008). Wen-zhang Ma China, particularly in Yunnan of 1990 (McBeath et al., 1991), DGL made The ancient city of Lijiang in north-west report on a recent Province and has developed close 884 bryophyte collections in Dali, Yulong Yunnan is a World Heritage Site and major Tcollaboration with the Kunming Institute of and Zhongdian Counties, and 3 years later tourist destination in China, celebrated for its ‘old botanical expedition Botany (KIB), part of the Chinese Academy 1,115 bryophytes were collected on the 1993 town’ traditional wooden buildings now rare in to Yunnan and of Sciences. Through this partnership RBGE ‘Kunming–Edinburgh–Gothenburg’ (KEG) China. Though devastated by a huge earthquake the rediscovery of botanists have participated in many botanical expedition. More recently, DGL participated in February 1996, the old town has been expeditions to Yunnan since 1981 when the first in five expeditions under the ‘Biotic Survey of restored and the city expanded greatly. It sits in two rare Chinese British expedition since the Cultural Revolution Gaoligong Shan’ from 2003 to 2007, and along a dramatic setting on the Lijiang Plain below the bryophytes. visited the Cang Shan mountains near Dali, on with James Shevock of the California Academy towering Yulong Xue Shan or Jade Dragon Snow 30 FieldBryology No108 | Nov12 FieldBryology No108 | Nov12 31 BryophytesAbroad In search of the Yulong Pincushion and Delavay’s Prongwort v West flank of the Yulong Shan. David Gray David Long, he Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh which David Chamberlain was the first to make of Sciences collected around 7,700 bryophyte David Bell and (RBGE) has a long history of bryophyte collections. On the next expedition, specimens in the Burmese border region of botanical exploration in western the ‘Chungtien-Lijiang-Dali’ (CLD) expedition Yunnan (Long, 2008). Wen-zhang Ma China, particularly in Yunnan of 1990 (McBeath et al., 1991), DGL made The ancient city of Lijiang in north-west report on a recent Province and has developed close 884 bryophyte collections in Dali, Yulong Yunnan is a World Heritage Site and major Tcollaboration with the Kunming Institute of and Zhongdian Counties, and 3 years later tourist destination in China, celebrated for its ‘old botanical expedition Botany (KIB), part of the Chinese Academy 1,115 bryophytes were collected on the 1993 town’ traditional wooden buildings now rare in to Yunnan and of Sciences. Through this partnership RBGE ‘Kunming–Edinburgh–Gothenburg’ (KEG) China. Though devastated by a huge earthquake the rediscovery of botanists have participated in many botanical expedition. More recently, DGL participated in February 1996, the old town has been expeditions to Yunnan since 1981 when the first in five expeditions under the ‘Biotic Survey of restored and the city expanded greatly. It sits in two rare Chinese British expedition since the Cultural Revolution Gaoligong Shan’ from 2003 to 2007, and along a dramatic setting on the Lijiang Plain below the bryophytes. visited the Cang Shan mountains near Dali, on with James Shevock of the California Academy towering Yulong Xue Shan or Jade Dragon Snow 30 FieldBryology No108 | Nov12 FieldBryology No108 | Nov12 31 Bryophytes abroad – Yulong Pincushion and Delavay’s Prongwort Bryophytes abroad – Yulong Pincushion and Delavay’s Prongwort Mountain (summit 5,596 m). The colourful life The development of the Jade Dragon Field The Yulong Xue Shan is a huge jagged Plagiochila semidecurrens, Rhytidiadelphus tri- in Lijiang in the last years up to the communist Station near Lijiang by KIB and RBGE between line of mountain peaks largely composed of quetrus and Rhodobryum laxelimbatum, and with takeover in 1949 was evocatively described by 2001 and 2011 has created an excellent base hard limestone, and the bryophyte flora is numerous epiphytes such as Bryowijkia ambigua, the Russian Peter Goullart (Goullart, 1955), for botanical, ecological and climate change characteristically calcicolous. On the CLD Meteoriopsis reclinata, Neckera crenulata, N. who was a friend of the celebrated explorer and research, which is now being actively encouraged expedition in October 1990 conditions were pennata, Plicanthus hirtellus, Porella macroloba, botanist Joseph Rock whose work documented by the parent organizations. Our ‘Edinburgh much more favourable for bryology, and the P. oblongifolia, Sphaerotheciella sphaerocarpa, the culture and language of the local minority Kunming Lijiang Expedition’ (EKLE) in May eastern slopes of the southern part of the range Struckia argentata and Tetralophozia filiformis. Nakhi people of Lijiang. Other botanists who 2012 included botanists from Edinburgh and were found to be very rich (for example at On Berberis shrubs Orthotrichum hookeri is studied the region’s rich flora were the Scottish Kunming, and its primary aim was to collect Ma Huang Ba and Wo Tu Di which were not frequent. plant collector George Forrest, and the Austrian specimens of bryophytes and vascular plants visited in 2012). Species recorded in 1990 The most interesting assemblage seen in Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti, the latter making from the Lijiang area along with silica gel included the following characteristic taxa. 1990 was in the rocky Rhododendron shrub- extensive collections of bryophytes (Winstanley material for molecular research. DGL, DB and On limestone outcrops and boulders: Anacolia beries at 3,900–4,030 m where some of the 1996). W-ZM were the bryologists on this expedition sinensis, Bartramia halleriana, Bryoerythro- Scottish liverwort heath species were found: However, Lijiang and Yulong Xue Shan and we collected over 800 bryophyte specimens phyllum wallichii, Campylophyllum halleri, Anastrophyllum alpinum, Anastrepta orcadensis have to our knowledge not been explored for to be deposited in the Edinburgh and Kunming Cirriphyllum cirrosum, Didymodon giganteus, D. and Plagiochila carringtonii, along with some bryophytes since the CLD expedition in 1990. herbaria. However, conditions were not ideal rivicola, Gymnostomum calcareum, Hymenostylium non-British associates: Herbertus delavayi, for bryology due to a prolonged severe drought, recurvirostrum, Leiocolea morrisoncola, Metzgeria Miehea indica, Paraleucobryum enerve, Scapania , The Jade Dragon Field Station on the Yulong Shan. though some of the spectacular flowering plants, pubescens, Molendoa hornschuchiana and M. ferruginea and S. sinikkae. D. Long notably the rhododendrons, were in full flower. warburgii (the last new to China), Platydictya On the 2012 expedition we planned to explore jungermannioides, Reimersia inconspicua, Scap- the other (western) side of the southern part of ania cuspiduligera, Schistidium trichodon the range and to make general collections of all and Tritomaria quinquedentata. On acidic the bryophytes we encountered. In addition, two outcrops and boulders: Apomarsupella revoluta, species discovered in 1990 we were especially Grimmia handelii, G. longipes, G. mammosa, keen to re-find and collect: Ptychomitrium Racomitrium albipiliferum and R. subsecundum. yulongshanum and Herbertus delavayi. In the On disturbed soil banks: Asterella leptophylla, A. event, the western slopes proved to be less rich mussuriensis, A. wallichiana, Bryoerythrophyllum than the eastern, and the very dry conditions inaequalifolium and Solenostoma truncatum. made field bryology more difficult. On animal dung on open slopes: Tetraplodon angustatus was abundant. On streamsides and Ptychomitrium yulongshanum – ‘Yulong in flushes: Calliergonella cuspidata, Cratoneuron Pincushion’ filicinum, Drepanocladus aduncus, Dumortiera The Jade Dragon Field Station sits on the hirsuta, Fissidens grandifrons and Jungermannia southern ridge of the Yulong Xue Shan range exsertifolia. in a picturesque setting by the Haligu Lake at On the lower slopes considerable though 3,200 m. On the CLD expedition in 1990, Ron rather fragmented areas of forest have survived McBeath and DGL climbed up through the pine past logging operations; these are of dry Pinus forest to the lake from the Camellia Temple but yunnanensis and evergreen Quercus lower down missed our target somewhat and ended up on giving way to mossy Abies/Rhododendron forests a rocky ridge overlooking the lake. This detour higher up. These are rich both in ground was fortuitous as on that ridge we collected bryophytes such as Actinothuidium hookeri, cushions of a Ptychomitrium which turned out 32 FieldBryology No108 | Nov12 FieldBryology No108 | Nov12 33 Bryophytes abroad – Yulong Pincushion and Delavay’s Prongwort Bryophytes abroad – Yulong Pincushion and Delavay’s Prongwort Mountain (summit 5,596 m). The colourful life The development of the Jade Dragon Field The Yulong Xue Shan is a huge jagged Plagiochila semidecurrens, Rhytidiadelphus tri- in Lijiang in the last years up to the communist Station near Lijiang by KIB and RBGE between line of mountain peaks largely composed of quetrus and Rhodobryum laxelimbatum, and with takeover in 1949 was evocatively described by 2001 and 2011 has created an excellent base hard
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