Pub Date : 2016-07-29DOI: 10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2016.V35.004
Francisco Ratto, A. Bartoli
Gutierrezia tortosae Ratto & Adr. Bartoli, a new species from Argentina, is described and illustrated. The new species resembles Gutierrezia mandonii (Sch. Bip.) Solbrig, in having xylopodium, similar shaped leaves, and yellow ray florets, but differs by having erect and rigid stems, erect leaves and smaller heads. A key to differentiate it from the allied species which inhabit in the northwest of Argentina is provided.
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Pub Date : 2016-07-29DOI: 10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2016.V35.002
G. Mercadal
Since the beginning of the eighteenth century, botanists in the southwest of Europe have recognized Estany de Sils (La Selva, Catalonia) as having a unique plant population, especially with regard to aquatic plants. Despite the lake being definitively drained in 1851, there is still today a fairly diverse aquatic flora in the remaining marshes and seasonal ponds. In this work, we present the catalogue of the flora of the aquatic plants in this Mediterranean wetland, compiled from field trips and from consultation of various herbaria and botanical works. Thus, according to our data, in the last 300 years, 37 aquatic plants have populated the lake, 12 of which are currently thought to have become locally extinct (although the presence of three of them is in doubt). The plants that have disappeared include Trapa natans, Marsilea quadrifolia, Najas minor and Rorippa amphibia . In addition, using the catalogue of flora, and following the criteria proposed by researchers of the Real Jardin Botanico de Madrid, we have carried out a botanical evaluation of Estany de Sils as a wetland area (I H index). Its botanical value has been found to be very high (an I H of 7.0 in 1850 compared to an I H of 6.9 in 2014) and the lake can still be considered a wetland of European importance nowadays. It must be noted, that the 30.6% and the 19.4% of the vascular aquatic plants existing in Catalan Countries and Spain, respectively, have been observed in the study area.
自18世纪初以来，欧洲西南部的植物学家已经认识到锡尔斯岛(加泰罗尼亚的La Selva)拥有独特的植物种群，特别是水生植物。尽管这个湖在1851年被完全排干了，但今天在剩余的沼泽和季节性池塘中仍然有相当多样化的水生植物群。在这项工作中，我们介绍了地中海湿地水生植物的植物区系目录，该目录是根据实地考察和各种植物标本馆和植物学著作编制的。因此，根据我们的数据，在过去的300年里，有37种水生植物在湖中生长，其中12种目前被认为已经在当地灭绝(尽管其中3种的存在尚存疑问)。已经消失的植物包括海苔、四合叶、小水仙和水陆两栖。此外，我们利用植物区系目录，并按照马德里皇家植物园研究人员提出的标准，对Estany de Sils作为湿地区进行了植物学评价(I H指数)。它的植物价值被发现非常高(1850年的I H为7.0，而2014年的I H为6.9)，如今该湖仍然可以被认为是欧洲重要的湿地。必须指出的是，在研究区内分别观察到加泰罗尼亚国家和西班牙存在的30.6%和19.4%的维管水生植物。
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Pub Date : 2016-07-05DOI: 10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2016.V35.001
R. Otto, F. Verloove
Many years of field work in La Palma (western Canary Islands) yielded a number of interesting new records of non-native vascular plants. Amaranthus blitoides, A. deflexus, Aptenia cordifolia, Argemone ochroleuca, Begonia schmidtiana, Capsella rubella, Cardamine hamiltonii, Centratherum punctatum, Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare, Chasmanthe floribunda (widely confused with C. aethiopica and Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora in Macaronesia), Chenopodium probstii, Commelina latifolia var. latifolia, Dichondra micrantha, Dysphania anthelmintica, Epilobium ciliatum, Erigeron sumatrensis, Erodium neuradifolium, Eucalyptus globulus, Euphorbia hypericifolia, E. maculata, Gamochaeta antillana, Geranium pyrenaicum, Hedychium coronarium, Hypochaeris radicata, Kalanchoe daigremontiana, K. delagoensis, K. x houghtonii, Kickxia commutata subsp. graeca, K. spuria subsp. integrifolia, Lactuca viminea subsp. ramosissima, Landoltia punctata, Malvastrum coromandelianum subsp. capitatospicatum, Oenothera jamesii, Orobanche nana, Oxalis latifolia, Papaver hybridum, P. setigerum, Pilea microphylla, Podranea ricasoliana, Polygonum arenastrum, Portulaca granulatostellulata, P. nicaraguensis, P. nitida, P. papillatostellulata, Rumex crispus subsp. crispus, R. pulcher subsp. pulcher, R. x pratensis, Sechium edule, Sida spinosa var. angustifolia, Silene nocturna, Solanum abutiloides, S. alatum, S. decipiens, Sonchus tenerrimus, Spergularia marina, Stellaria pallida, Tragopogon porrifolius subsp. australis, Tribulus terrestris and Trifolium repens subsp. repens are naturalized or (potentially) invasive xenophytes, reported for the first time from either the Canary Islands or from La Palma. 37 additional, presumably ephemeral taxa are reported for the first time from the Canary Islands, whereas 56 ephemeral taxa are new for La Palma..
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Pub Date : 2015-12-30DOI: 10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.001
Jianquan Liu, M. Ren, A. Susanna, J. López‐Pujol
China has one of the world’s richest floras with around 33,000 vascular plants, of which up to 17,000 are endemic. Besides these astonishing figures, the Chinese flora is very interesting from the point of view of evolution, as it shows a strong relictual character with some truly “living fossils” such as Ginkgo biloba or Metasequoia glyptostroboides . At the same time, China probably harbours the most important ‘‘evolutionary front’’ of the world’s temperate flora, the Hengduan Mountains. Unfortunately, the flora of China also includes a high number of threatened species (with nearly 4000), mostly due to the destruction of natural habitats and the over-exploitation of natural resources. This special issue, which corresponds to volume 34 of Collectanea Botanica , is aimed to contribute to the knowledge of Chinese flora through a series of contributions (seven full-length articles and one short note) spanning several topics such as biogeography, conservation, demography, ecology, evolution, and plant-animal interactions.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-30DOI: 10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.004
Hua-Feng Wang, M. X. Ren, J. López-Pujol, C. R. Friedman, Lauchlan H. Fraser, G. Huang
Studying plant species richness and composition of a wetland is essential when estimating its ecological importance and ecosystem services, especially if a particular wetland is subjected to human disturbances. Poyang Lake, located in the middle reaches of Yangtze River (central China), constitutes the largest freshwater lake of the country. It harbours high biodiversity and provides important habitat for local wildlife. A dam that will maintain the water capacity in Poyang Lake is currently being planned. However, the local biodiversity and the likely effects of this dam on the biodiversity (especially on the endemic and rare plants) have not been thoroughly examined. Therefore, in order to assess the richness of plant species and plant communities in Poyang Lake, we conducted a detailed field investigation combined with a literature review. A total of 124 families, 339 genera, and 512 species (including sub-species, varieties and forms) as well as eight dominant plant communities were identified, confirming the lake’s wetland as a regional hotspot of plant diversity. It is imperative to carry out further research on the impact of damming on the vegetation, particularly research focusing on protecting local biodiversity, maintaining the lake’s ecosystem services, controlling the spread of invasive species, and restoring degraded ecosystems.
{"title":"Especies y comunidades vegetales del lago Poyang, el lago de agua dulce más grande de China","authors":"Hua-Feng Wang, M. X. Ren, J. López-Pujol, C. R. Friedman, Lauchlan H. Fraser, G. Huang","doi":"10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.004","url":null,"abstract":"Studying plant species richness and composition of a wetland is essential when estimating its ecological importance and ecosystem services, especially if a particular wetland is subjected to human disturbances. Poyang Lake, located in the middle reaches of Yangtze River (central China), constitutes the largest freshwater lake of the country. It harbours high biodiversity and provides important habitat for local wildlife. A dam that will maintain the water capacity in Poyang Lake is currently being planned. However, the local biodiversity and the likely effects of this dam on the biodiversity (especially on the endemic and rare plants) have not been thoroughly examined. Therefore, in order to assess the richness of plant species and plant communities in Poyang Lake, we conducted a detailed field investigation combined with a literature review. A total of 124 families, 339 genera, and 512 species (including sub-species, varieties and forms) as well as eight dominant plant communities were identified, confirming the lake’s wetland as a regional hotspot of plant diversity. It is imperative to carry out further research on the impact of damming on the vegetation, particularly research focusing on protecting local biodiversity, maintaining the lake’s ecosystem services, controlling the spread of invasive species, and restoring degraded ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":38447,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Botanica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70861513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-30DOI: 10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.003
M. Ren
The biodiversity hotspot at the Guizhou–Yunnan–Guangxi borders is a distribution centre of tropical plants in China. It spans the whole upper reaches of Zhujiang River, the largest river in Southern China. In this paper, I aimed to explore the roles of the river in the spread and diversification of tropical plants in this area, using the Asia-endemic genus Hiptage Gaertn. (Malpighiaceae) as an example. Two diversity and endemism centres of Hiptage are recognized: Indo-China Peninsula and upper reaches of Zhujiang River (UZJ). The area-adjusted endemism index further indicates UZJ as the most important distribution region of endemic species since UZJ has a very small area (~210,000 km 2 ) but six out of the total seven species are narrow endemics. UZJ is located at the northern edge of distribution ranges of Hiptage , which resulted mainly from the north-west–south-east river systems of UZJ promoting northward spreads of this tropical genus. The highly-fragmented limestone landscapes in this region may promote habitat isolation and tends to be the main driving factor for origins of these endemic species. Hiptage is also distinctive for its highly-specialized pollination system, mirror-image flowers, which probably facilitates species diversification via floral and pollination isolation. Other studies also found UZJ as a major diversification centre of the tropical plant families Gesneriaceae and Begoniaceae. Thereafter, it is concluded that UZJ is an “evolutionary front” of tropical plants in China, which contributes significantly to the origin and maintenance of the unique biodiversity in the area.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-30DOI: 10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.005
W. H. Liu, X. Dai, J. Xu
Leaf-mining insects are an herbivore group whose larvae live and feed inside plant leaves. Leaf mines are distinct marks on leaves and can provide much information on insect-plant relationships. Most leaf miners are monophagous or oligophagous. Therefore ecologists and paleontologists use them to study interactions and coevolution among plants, insects and natural enemies. There are many different types of leaf-mining patterns on plant leaves, which may have different impacts on host plants. Compared with ectophagous herbivores, leaf-mining insects should have unique influences on host plant characteristics, such as leaf morphology, leaf chemistry, plant physiology, plant growth and production. Obvious impacts include leaf asymmetry, callus formation, photosynthesis, and green islands. Types and degrees of such influences are varied for different leaf miner species or different host plant species. In turn, the change of plant features may have positive or negative impacts on oviposition and feeding of leaf-mining insects. Studies on plant responses to leaf-mining and the defensive mechanisms of plants are helpful in understanding the coevolution between leaf miners and their food plants.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-30DOI: 10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.009
Zhiqiang Wang, D. Guillot, J. López‐Pujol
Crassula ovata, the jade plant, is reported for the first time from mainland China. Two small populations have been discovered in the downtown of the city of Chengdu (Sichuan Province, western China).
{"title":"Crassula ovata , a new alien plant for mainland China","authors":"Zhiqiang Wang, D. Guillot, J. López‐Pujol","doi":"10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.009","url":null,"abstract":"Crassula ovata, the jade plant, is reported for the first time from mainland China. Two small populations have been discovered in the downtown of the city of Chengdu (Sichuan Province, western China).","PeriodicalId":38447,"journal":{"name":"Collectanea Botanica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70862248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-30DOI: 10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.007
HU X.-Y., J. Zhu, X.-Q. Song, HE R.-X.
Orchidaceae are widely distributed in many terrestrial ecosystems except for polar and desert areas and constitute a “flagship group” in biological conservation. As the largest tropical island of China, Hainan has five tropical forest vegetation types, namely deciduous monsoon forest, lowland rainforest, montane rainforest, montane evergreen forest, and montane cloud forest. There are 317 orchid species in the island, including 33 endemic, 158 epiphytic, 148 terrestrial, and 11 saprophytic species. Most orchids, which are mainly located in central and southern parts of the island, are generally distributed in damp tropical forests in mountains at an altitude of 500–1500 m. Highest level of endemism is also centred in these areas. Orchids are especially threatened by habitat fragmentation because they grow in small populations, and fragmentation may block gene flow and result in lower genetic diversity. In addition, due to their ornamental and medicinal value, many orchids are over-collected. Therefore, orchid conservation in Hainan Island is very urgent. The aim of this article is to determine the distribution pattern of orchids and expound research and conservation status in Hainan Island, and to propose conservation strategies for the future.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-30DOI: 10.3989/COLLECTBOT.2015.V34.006
C. Tang
This paper analyzes the geographic distribution patterns of the subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests of southwestern China, and compares with other subtropical regions in the east of China in terms of forest types, pertinent species, and spatial distribution along latitudinal, longitudinal and altitudinal gradients. In general, for both the western and the eastern subtropical regions, the evergreen broad-leaved forests are dominated by species of Castanopsis, Lithocarpus, Cyclobalanopsis (Fagaceae), Machilus, Cinnamomum (Lauraceae), Schima (Theaceae), Manglietia , and Michelia , (Magnoliaceae), while in southwestern China there are more diverse forest types including semi-humid, monsoon, mid-montane moist and humid evergreen broad-leaved forests, but only monsoon and humid forests in the east. The Yunnan area has more varied species of Lithocarpus or Cyclobalanopsis or Castanopsis as dominants than does eastern China, where the chief dominant genus is Castanopsis . The upper limits of the evergreen broad-leaved forests are mainly 2400–2800 m in western Yunnan and western Sichuan, much higher than in eastern China (600–1500, but 2500 m in Taiwan). Also discussed are the environmental effects on plant diversity of the evergreen broad-leaved forest ecosystems exemplified by Yunnan and Taiwan.
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