生物多样性 ›› 2024, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (11): 24379.  DOI: 10.17520/biods.2024379  cstr: 32101.14.biods.2024379

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水杉究竟是怎样发现的?——由亲身经历来谈水杉发现的经过

王战1, 薛纪如2   

  1. 1.中国科学院林业土壤研究所(现中国科学院沈阳应用生态研究所), 沈阳 110016
    2.云南林学院(现西南林业大学), 昆明 650224
  • 出版日期:2024-11-20 发布日期:2025-01-13

How was Metasequoia glyptostroboides discovered?—Review of the discovery by first-hand experiences

Chan Wang1, Chi-Ju Hsueh2   

  1. 1. Institute of Forestry and Soil Sciences (now Institute of Applied Ecology), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
    2. Yunnan Forestry College (now Southwest Forestry University), Kunming 650224, China
  • Online:2024-11-20 Published:2025-01-13

摘要:

本文是作者于1980年9月以后完成的手稿, 作者在世时未发表, 现作为他们的遗作发表。文章回顾了水杉发现的经过。王战于1943年在其同学的建议下采到了第一份水杉标本, 看似水松却与水松不同, 疑似新种。但因参考资料不足, 不能确定, 就托人请郑万钧鉴定, 郑万钧确定是一个新分类群, 后由胡先骕和郑万钧联名发表。至于干铎, 他未曾研究过水杉, 其自称在王战之前就曾托人采集过标本一事纯属捏造, 所以水杉的发现及发表与干铎毫无关系。

关键词: 王战, 郑万钧, 干铎

Abstract

A draft of this article was hand-written by the authors after September in 1980, which has not been uncovered until recently. It is now being published as a piece of their posthumous work. The article reviews the discovery of Metasequoia glyptostroboides. Chan Wang collected the first specimen of the species in 1943 based on the information obtained from a classmate of him. The specimen resembled Glyptostrobus pensilis but differed from it in some aspects, and hence Chan Wang thought that it was possibly a new species. However, due to the lack of reference materials at that time, he could not precisely determine its taxonomic status. Then Chan Wang asked Wan-Chun Cheng for help to identify the specimen, and Wan-Chun Cheng identified it as a new species. The new species was jointly published by Hsen-Hsu Hu and Wan-Chun Cheng. As to Tuo Kan, he had never investigated the species. It is purely a fabricated story made by Tuo Kan that he discovered the species and once had a specimen of it collected before Chan Wang; the discovery and publication of Metasequoia glyptostroboides had nothing to do with Tuo Kan.

Key words: Chan Wang, Wan-Chun Cheng, Tuo Kan