The Grand Panda National Park Wolong District once again discovered the new plant "Wolong Basin distance orchid"

Cover Journalist Gou Chun

On July 21, the cover reporter learned from the Sichuan Forestry and Grassland Bureau that during the survey of Lanke Plants in the area under its jurisdiction, the Sichuan Wolong National Nature Reserve staff once again discovered the new species of the Lanke plant -Wolong Pot. This is the third new plant species in the Big Panda National Park Wolong District Following Wolong Wudilan.

▲ Wolong Pot is the orchid. Picture source Sichuan Forestry and Grassland Bureau

According to the staff of the Wolong National Nature Reserve, in November 2020, the Lanke plant (non -flowering period) was found in the wild in November 2020; in May 2021 Collecting the ITS nuclear gene molecular sample, after the Xu Bo team of the Chengdu Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences inspects relevant literature, conducts morphological and molecular system studies, and finally determines it as a new species. : Wolong pot distance orchid.

In recent years, with the gradually increasing ecological protection, patrol monitoring, and scientific research of Wolong National Nature Reserve, more and more rare orchid plants are found in Wolong, which is of great significance for the study of Wolong's biological diversity. It is maintained for maintenance. Ecosystem balance provides more reference.

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