QUERCUS MONTANA (FAGACEAE), NEW TO MISSOURI

2005·0.82 MB·English

by  Marian Smith

qUERCUSMONTANA(FAGACEAE),NEWTOMISSOURI
MarianSmith NancyParker
SouthernIllinoisUniversity SouthernIllinoisUniversity
Edwardsville,Illinois62026,U.S.A. Edwardsville,Illinois62026,U.S.A.
[email protected] [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Quercusmontana(Fagaccac)isanewspecieslorMissouri,extendingthewesternedgeoltherange
lorthespeciesinNorthAmerica.
RESUMEN
Qucirusmontana(Fagaceac)esunanucvacspecieparaMissouri,queextiendeelextremooccidental
desuareaenNorteAmerica,
QuercusmontanaWilld.,rocl<chestnutoak,iscommonintheNEUS,andknown
PtAo,ocmc,urSCi,nTANk,,CVTT,,DVEA,,GWA,Vli(.,NiIN.,xoKnY,&MEM,ulMlDer,M19A9,7).MkThMeS,spNeHc,ieNsJ,alNsYo,hNaCs,bOeHe,n
calledQ.prinusk.insomeoftheNorthAmericanbotanicalliterature,butbe-
causeofpersistentproblemswiththetypificationandapplicationol thatepi-
thet,wearefollowingNixonandMuller(1997)musingthenameQ.montana.
TherehasbeenarecentproposaltorejectthenameQ.prinus(Whittemore6?
Nixon2005).WereportitfromfoursitesinWayneCoinsouthernMissouri,on
landownedandmanagedbytheUSArmyCorpsofEngineers(USACE)sur-
roundingkakeWappapello.Thelakewascreatedin1941bytheUSACEtocon-
trol floodingof farmland on the St.FrangoisRiver(USACE 2002).The
WappapelloProjectconsistsof44,000acresoflandandwater;thelakevaries
insizefrom5,200to23,200acresinsurfacearea,dependingupontheseason.
Theoriginalvegetationoftheareaconsistedol woodlandsthatwereparto(
theeasterntemperatedeciduousforest(Yatskievych1999).Thisisthefirstre-
portofQ.montanainMissouri,andarangeextensionofca.50kmforthespe-
ciesonitswesternboundary.BecauseoftheproximityoftheQ.montanapopu-
lationsinsouthernIllinois(Nixon&Muller1997;seedistributionmapinFNA,
Vol.3,pg.476)andthenumberofpopulationsdiscoveredinWayneCo,MO,
thecurrentreportsuggeststhatforestedareasincountieslyingbetweenthe
MissouriandIllinoispopulationsshouldbesurveyedforthespecies.
Thepopulationsreportedbelowwerefromthreegladesandanoak-hickory
forest.Inallcases,thespecimenswerecollectedfromsaplings(1-1.5m)grow-
inginwell-drainedrockysoil.AllspecimenswereverifiedbyAlanWhittemore
(USNationalArboretum,Washington,DC).Althoughsaphngsappearedtobe
abundantintheareas,theparenttreeswerenotidentified.Atglade1,associ-
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arcdspeciesincludedAcersaccharum Michx.,Caryaovaiu(Miller)K.Koch,
PhiiaiiusoccidcniaUsL.,QucirusalhaL.,Q.unbricanaMichx.,Q.marilaudka
Moench.,Q.rubraL.,Q.xtridentataEngelm.andUlmusaniericanaL;atglade
2,A.negundoI-.,CerciscanadensisL.,Q.alba,Q.imbricaria,Q.muehlenbcrgii
Hngelm.,Q.rubra,andQ.xtridentata\and A.saccharum,Q.marilandica.Q.
muehlcnbergii,Q.rubraandL'.alataMichx.atglade3.Associatedspeciesat
theoak-hickorysiteinchidedA.saccharum,CckisoccidcntalisL.,C.canadensis,
Q.imbncaria,Q.marilandica,Q.stcllataWangvarstcllata,Q.xiridcnlala,Q.
rubraandIJ.alata.
Voucherspeciiiicn:MISSOURI.WayneCo.:\:,oSonUSbTto1Iwy34;go•-1iniWaiitlturnNonRebel
Cavel^el{Ca>RclMD):goca,O.l"^ini,tal<erightforkonCoRd311antlcontinueNca.1.25mitoIh'st
USACHparkinglot:gothroughgatelorca.0.3mi;limestoneglatieonleholroadtgladc1);N37.12.35
W090,29.4y;7Aug2004,M,Smith04-151(MO).
ACKNOWLHDGMFNTS
ThisstudywasfundedbyaUSAGE,StLouisDistrict,contract(DACW4.3-02-
P-10.10)awardedtoM.Smith.WethankJamesGraceyandthestaffatUSAGE
WappapelloLakeProjectOfficeforlogisticalsupport;AlanWhittemore,US
NationalArboretum,forverificationoftheoaks;GeorgeYatskievych,Floraof
MissouriProject,forhelpinspecimenidentification;PaulMcKenzie,USFWS,
loreditingsuggestions,andPaigeMettler,LindenwoodUniversity,andGenneth
Wells,SIUE,forhelpinthefield.GeorgeYatskievychandRobinC.Kennedy
reviewedanearlierdraltofthemanuscript.
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