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Huperzia appressa A. Love & D. Love

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Ecology and Resource Use of the Mongolian Plateau, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021 (China)
  • 2. KEY WORDS China, Mongolia, floristical updating, morphology, new records, new variety.
  • 3. Department of Biology, School of Mathematics and Natural Science, Mongolian National University of Education, Ulaanbaatar 14191 (Mongolia)
  • 4. Yinshanbeilu Grassland Eco-hydrological National Observation and Research Station (China) & Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038 (China)
  • 5. College of Desert Control Science and Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018 (China) 15034988767 @ 163. com (corresponding author)

Description

Huperzia appressa (Desvaux) Á.Löve & D.Löve

(Fig. 6D, E)

Botaniska Notiser 114: 34 (Löve & Löve 1961). — Huperzia selago subsp. appressa (Bach.Pyl. ex Desv.) D. Löve, Botaniska Notiser 109: 164 (Löve & Freedman 1956). — Huperzia selago var. appressa (Bach. Pyl. ex Desv.) Ching, Acta Botanica Yunnanica 3: 303 (Ching 1981).

TYPE MATERIAL. — France • Without location; without date; La Pilaye B. de s.n.; holo-, P [P00263092].

ETYMOLOGY. — The specific epithet refers to the leaves being appressed to the stem.

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. — It is distributed from the subarctic to the Himalaya (Zhang & Iwatsuki 2013). GBIF recorded that H. appressa was distributed in Mongolia in 2001, and included photos of the plant specimens (GBIF 2024). However, it was not listed as being present in Mongolia in POWO (POWO 2024), nor does it appear in the most recent list of Mongolia's vascular plants (Baasanmunkh et al. 2022). In 2017, our collection of this species in Uvs province, Mongolia, supported its presence in the region.

ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Mongolia • Uvs, Kobdo sum, hilly area; 16.VII.2017; L.Q. Zhao et al. M17-7147; HIMC[HIMC0014772]! • Bayan-Ulgii; 28.VII.2001; Kamelin R.V. et al. s.n.; ALTB[ALTB1010003598] (photo!).

TAXONOMIC NOTES

Huperzia appressa is morphologically similar to H. selago, which is known to occur in Mongolia. In our Mongolian collections, the plants displayed gemmae distinctly distributed along the entire length of the annual shoot increment (Gilman & Testo 2015). Based on relevant literature (Björk 2020), we have confirmed the identification of these specimens as H. appressa.

Notes

Published as part of Xin, Yue, Alatanzhula, Zhao, Liqing, Gundegmaa, Vanjil, Yao, Zhenyu & Ri, Xu, 2025, A new Carex L. variety and ten new records from China and Mongolia, pp. 157-170 in Adansonia (3) (3) 47 (10) on page 165, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2025v47a10, http://zenodo.org/record/15781324

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C9AB14AF5EFFA82BE4F9FB644E8A42

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.16037652 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5252/adansonia2025v47a10 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/15781324 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFF0D36CAF54FFA22B27FF8160468912 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03C9AB14AF5EFFA82BE4F9FB644E8A42 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/266302423 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/311120/taxon/03C9AB14AF5EFFA82BE4F9FB644E8A42.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
ALTB , HIMC , P
Material sample ID
ALTB1010003598 , HIMC0014772 , P00263092
Event date
2001-07-28 , 2017-07-16
Verbatim event date
2001-07-28 , 2017-07-16
Scientific name authorship
A. Love & D. Love
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Lycopodiales
Family
Lycopodiaceae
Genus
Huperzia
Species
appressa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

  • LOVE A. & LOVE D. 1961. - Some nomenclatural changes in the European Flora I. Species and supraspecific categorie. Botaniska Notiser 114 (1): 34-35.
  • LOVE D. & FREEDMAN N. J. 1956. - A plant collection from SW Yukon. Botaniska Notiser 109: 164.
  • CHING R. - C. 1981. - The taxonomy of Chinese Lycopodiaceae (SEN. LAT.) II. Acta Botanica Yunnanica 3 (3): 291-305.
  • ZHANG L. B. & IWATSUKI K. 2013. - Lycopodiaceae, in WU Z. Y., RAVEN P. H. & HONG D. Y. (eds), Flora of China. Vol. 2, 3. Science Press, Beijing: 13-34.
  • GBIF 2024. - Huperzia appressa (Bach. Pyl. ex Desv.) A. Love & D. Love. Available online: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/4406455610; Rosularia alpestris subsp. marnieri (Raym. - Hamet ex H. Ohba) Eggli. Available online: https://www.gbif. org / occurrence / 814302266 (accessed on 1 February 2024).
  • POWO 2024. - Carex relaxa V. I. Krecz. Available online: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:301907-1; Huperzia appressa (Bach. Pyl. ex Desv.) A. Love & D. Love. Available online: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:124840-2 (accessed on 1 February 2024).
  • BAASANMUNKH S., MAGSAR U., BATLAI O., SUKHORUKOV A., TSEGMED Z., SON D. C., ERST A., OYUNDELGER K., ALEXEY K., NORRIS J., KOSACHEV P., MA J. - S., CHANG K. & CHOI H. J. 2022. - Flora of Mongolia: annotated checklist of native vascular plants. PhytoKeys 192: 63-169. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.192.79702
  • GILMAN A. & TESTO W. 2015. - Use of gemma characters to identify North American Huperzia (Lycopodiaceae). American Fern Journal 105: 145-161. https://doi.org/10.1640/0002-8444-105.3.145
  • BJORK C. 2020. - Notes on the Holarctic Species of Huperzia (Lycopodiaceae), with Emphasis on British Columbia, Canada. Annales Botanici Fennici 57: 255-278. https://doi.org/10.5735/085.057.0410