The Mosses of Crocker Range Park, Malaysian Borneo.

Monica Suleiman,Hiroyuki Akiyama,Dunstan Polus Masundang

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.88.14674

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Abstract

This paper reports the mosses from Crocker Range Park (CRP) in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. In total, 293 species, three subspecies and eight varieties belonging to 118 genera and 36 families are reported. This represents about 40% and 47% of the species and infra-specific taxa reported from Borneo and Sabah, respectively. Out of these, six species are new records for Borneo, namely Barbella horridula, Chaetomitrium lancifolium, Distichophyllum leiopogon, Rhaphidostichum luzonense, Rosulabryum capillare and Taxiphyllum taxirameum and 12 species and one variety are new to Sabah. With these additions, the current number of mosses in Sabah and Borneo are 651 and 766, respectively. The largest family of mosses is Calymperaceae with 35 species and one subspecies, followed by Sematophyllaceae with 32 species and two varieties and Pylaisiadelphaceae with 21 species and one variety. In conclusion, CRP has a very high species richness of mosses which is the second highest in Borneo, after Mount Kinabalu.

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Crocker Range Park (CRP) is located in the west coast of Sabah, East Malaysia in Borneo
Another factor which may have contributed to the lesser attention received by CRP is the fact that its highest peak is only 2,076 m a.s.l., just half of that of Mount Kinabalu (4,059 m a.s.l.)
Identified specimens were deposited at BORH and a set of duplicates were sent to the Herbarium of Sabah Park (SNP)

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Crocker Range Park (CRP) is located in the west coast of Sabah, East Malaysia in Borneo (latitude 5°07' to 5°56'N and longitude 115°50' to 116°28'E) This park is about 110 km long and 15 km wide, covering an area of 139,919 ha, making it the largest terrestrial park and protected area in Sabah. CRP has become more accessible after the establishment of seven substations within the park between the years 2003 and 2005 and the opening of a new road system from Ulu Kimanis (western part) to Keningau Town (eastern part), cutting through the central part of the park Another factor which may have contributed to the lesser attention received by CRP is the fact that its highest peak is only 2,076 m a.s.l., just half of that of Mount Kinabalu (4,059 m a.s.l.). 27% of the total area of CRP is more than 1,000 m a.s.l., with 16 peaks above this height (Usui et al 2006)

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