Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences Hu Guangwan's research team discovered new plant species in Yajiang County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. On September 27, the reporter learned from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that a paper on this new species of orchid family named "Yajiang Tonguebolan" has recently been published in the international academic journal Kew Bulletin.
It is reported that in August 2020, during the investigation of orchid plants in western Sichuan, researchers of Hu Guangwan's research team found a orchid plant with white flowers and pink spots in Yajiang County . The plants are short and the leaves are close to the ground. Since the plant was at the end of the flowering stage at that time, and there were few individuals who reproduced, researchers failed to identify it.
In July 2021, researchers from Hu Guangwan's research team went to the local area again and photographed individuals whose plant was in its peak flowering period, and there were many. Through morphology and molecular systems research, researchers finally confirmed that it is a new species of the genus Orchidaceae .
According to the place name of this plant model, researchers named it "Yajiang Tonguebolan". This is the third new orchid species discovered in Sichuan after Hu Guangwan's research team published "Chinese Coral Orchid" and "Wolong No Pillar Orchid".
Source: Xinhuanet
