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Sofie Kovalcheck
On a clear August day in 2002, Ma Jinshuang, a botanist, struck gold. At the bottom of a cabinet in a dark, moist, long-abandoned herbarium in Nanjing, perched unprotected on top of the conifer specimens, lay a barely intact cluster of twigs and needles. A rotting heap of nature, to most eyes.
When uncovered, live, in a remote corner of Si-chuan Province in the 1940s, the tree was thought to be as extinct as the dinosaurs with which it once co-inhabited the earth. Its live discovery led scientists to reexamine the redwood fossils collected to date in North America and Asia that had been called Sequoia but were, in fact, Metasequoia, wrote the paleobotanist Ralph W. Chaney of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1948.
Ma is a U.S. citizen who was born in China and educated there. He has a PhD in plant taxonomy, has taught in China, and spent lengthy research stints at Harvard and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. In his Boston home are documents he has amassed on the Metasequoia discovery. He founded the website www.metasequoia.org, devoted to everything Metasequoia including research, sightings, impressions, and directions on how to reach the original Modaoxi village tree from which the first specimens were harvested. Since 2000, Ma has published articles on Metasequoia in and outside China. His meticulous literature review reveals scholarly inconsistences and distortions Ma finds in many of the articles and books published in China, Taiwan, and abroad.
Part of this truth finding, for Ma and others, is setting the record straight for people outside China on the contribution of Wang Zhan, a highly accomplished botanist and forestry expert who died in 2000. In 1943, however, he was just starting his career as a modest forester whose sudden illness while traveling led him to a most unusual tree.
Wang was intrigued. Once he recovered, he hiked three days through mile-high mountains to reach the tree site. The tall tree above the small temple that Yang had described stood flanked by two similar, smaller trees.
Once back in wartime Chongqing, with sparse reference materials at hand, he was unable to identify it. A few years later, Wang handed over to Zheng Wanjun, a dendrologist at the National Central University, a few of the novel specimens for identification. In February and May 1946 Zheng sent a graduate student, Xue Jiru, to carry out more complete collections.
Was the omission careless or intentional? If the first, the authors, both prominent men, never corrected the record in writing. Of course, regardless of nation, it is not unusual for academics to fail to credit all contributors to a find. So does this omission matter? In China, it appears to.
Wang died in 2000 at age 89. According to Liu Qijing, he was preceded in death by his wife in 1992, and his son, who committed suicide during the Cultural Revolution, when Wang and his family suffered severe persecution. He is survived by three daughters.
But Wang was not interested in personal gain, says Shao. Who discovered Metasequoia was less important than the fact it was now growing successfully all over the world and was better protected, Shao says Wang once told him.
That the herbarium in which Ma exhumed it, unattended since the 1980s, was abandoned would not surprise a botanist. Neglected herbaria appear all over the world, Bruce Bartholomew says, especially among lesser institutions such as this one, or where the one person who built and doted on the collection retired.
Really fascinating. It points out the value of dispersed collections and benign neglect. With the extensive conflict in China in the middle 20th century it is amazing the sample survived. I also appreciated the sensitive portrayal of Chinese cultural concepts woven into the story.
J. ARNOLD ARBOR. 61: 41-94. 1980.The Metasequoia Flora and Its Phytogeographic SignificanceShiu Ying HuMY FIRST ASSOCIATION with Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu & Cheng was at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University during the winter of 1948-1949. At that time help was needed to place fresh, recently imported metasequoia seed into small envelopes for distribution to botanical institutions, forest experiment stations, and interested individuals around the world. These seeds, mailed from Nanking, China, on November 29, 1948, and totaling 500 grams, were the second shipment received at the Arnold Arboretum. A letter from Professor W. C. Cheng concerning the shipment was later placed with the unmounted specimens of M. glyptostroboides that had been collected during the summer of 1948.
In addition to the seed, five shipments of herbarium specimens collected in southwestern Hupeh Province between 1946 and 1948 were received at the Arnold Arboretum by the late Professor Elmer D. Merrill. In 1973 this herbarium material was turned over to me for identification, and this article is concerned with the information resulting from that undertaking. A systematic enumeration of all identifiable species represented in the five collections (an assemblage of species here termed the "metasequoia flora") is presented below. While the type locality of Metasequoia glyptostroboides is in eastern Szechwan, the specimens on which this work is based are from the general area (here referred to as the "metasequoia area") in Hupeh Province where M. glyptostroboides was later discovered growing in a 'natural population (see below). Also included are brief summaries of the expeditions that obtained the five collections, as well as a short account of earlier botanical collections from Central China, a description of the salient features of the metasequoia flora, an analysis of the gymnosperms that occur with metasequoia, and my interpretation of the metasequoia flora.
In 1950 K. L. Chu and W. S. Cooper published the results of an ecological reconnaissance of the metasequoia community. A posthumously published paper by E. H. Fulling (1976), along with additions published in 1977, summarizes the history of the discovery of Metasequoia glyptostroboides and presents an annotated bibliography of published references to metasequoia. Only information not available in these three readily available articles is included here.
In the enumeration of species, the system followed in the arrangement of the families conforms with that used in Iconographia Cormophytorurn Sinicorum (Anonymous, 1972-1976). For economy of space, and unless
Earlier authors have employed different spellings for the same collectors or localities. For those who lack a knowledge of the geography of the region and the Chinese language, these differences are often confusing. In this article, the following guidelines have been used in deciding between alternative spellings of Chinese personal and place names. For collectors the spellings on the herbarium labels have been used. However, with regard to the name of the man who discovered metasequoia, earlier authors have used either T. Wang or C. Wang. Since his publication with P. Y. Fu on Salix (1974) appeared under his name as Zhan Wang, the initial of his given name adopted here is Z.
Concerning localities, for names of well-known places such as Chungking, Hupeh, and Szechwan, the widely recognized spellings of the Chinese Post Office and foreign presses have been adopted, and the Rand McNally World Atlas (Anonymous, 1949) has been used as a reference. Names of minor localities have been transliterated using the system of romanization outlined in the Harvard University Press edition of Mathew's (1931) A Chinese-English Dictionary. Cross-references to different spellings of various names that have already appeared in publications are given below,[1] where recognized spellings are given in boldface type. The names listed under "other localities" are alphabetically arranged.
The botanical expeditions that have contributed to our knowledge of the metasequoia flora are numerous. Some were mounted specifically for the investigation of the area in which Metasequoia glyptostroboides was discovered as an extant plant, while others were conducted for the general botanical exploration of the flora of Central China. Metasequoia glyptostroboides is now known to occur naturally in western Hupeh and adjacent Szechwan provinces southward to the hills of western Hunan (cf. Cheng, Fu, et al.,
EARLIER COLLECTIONS FROM CENTRAL CHINA. Many historical collecting localities are within a 250 kilometer radius of the metasequoia area (MAP 1) and our present knowledge of the flora of Central China is largely the result of the expeditions and collecting activities of both western and Chinese botanists within this larger area. Europeans and Americans who had collected in Central China before the discovery of Metasequoia glyptostroboides include Thomas Watters, Augustine Henry, E. H. Wilson, P. Farges, A. von Rosthorn, A. C. Steward, the French missionaries E. Bodinier, J. Cavalerie, and J. Esquirol, and the Italian missionary C. Silvestri.
The many species new to science that were included in the collections made by these botanists were, likewise, described by both American and European taxonomists. Notable among this group were H. F. Hance, W.
Active floristic investigations carried out by Chinese botanists in Central China did not begin until western-trained students of botany returned to China and became eminent in that country's educational institutions. Several of the Chinese botanists who received their training at the Arnold Arboretum, and whose activities have advanced our knowledge of the metasequoia flora either directly or indirectly, are mentioned here. The first was Professor S. S. Chien, who, immediately after his return to China, taught in the National Southeastern University of Nanking (later renamed National Central University and now merged with Nanking University). In the late 1920's he was responsible for developing the botanical collections of the newly established Biological Laboratories of the Science Society of China. One of his goals was to establish a reference herbarium; toward this end, he sent one of his students, Y. L. Keng, to collect in Kiangsu and Chekiang in 1927. In the spring of 1928, he sent W. P. Fang to Szechwan to collect at Chin-fu-shan and many other localities (MAP 1). Fang was born and raised in Chung Hsien, 60 kilometers from Mo-tao-chi, and only 75 kilometers west of the metasequoia area. Although he stopped and collected in Chung Hsien, he did not reach the metasequoia area. Duplicates of Fang's collections are deposited in the herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum.
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