Yunnan horse [SEP] parent taxon
Yunnan horse
The Yunnan horse (Equus yunnanensis) was an extinct horse that once roamed in Pleistocene East Asia very likely as a grazer on open tracts of grassland. It was a small horse comparable in size to the modern Przewalski's horse.
It was first described by Edwin H. Colbert from dental fossils collected by Walter W. Granger in the Ma Kai Valley in northern Yunnan ten miles south of the town of Ma kai in Guangnan County as part of the program of the Central Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural
this as a taxon hitherto unknown to science. Kellogg noted that this was "a very marked [distinct], fine [attractive], robust species, worthy of cultivation".
In the Monterey area Lobb also found "Rhododendron occidentale", one of only two deciduous "Rhododendron" species native to western North America which was to become the parent of many hybrid rhododendrons, and a small horse chestnut, the California buckeye ("Aesculus californica"). He also sent back seeds of various other conifers, including