【Explanation】Recently, Chinese researchers discovered a plant species "Aeschynanthusmonetaria" which was found again in the Tibet Autonomous Region one hundred years later in the "hidden world", and for the first time formulated a Chinese name for it-the mango scallion shellfish has attracted widespread attention. On June 30, Hu Jun, a researcher at the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced the species and the significance of the discovery to reporters.
It is reported that the genus Miscanthus is a unique genus of the chrysanthemum family, about 140 to 160 species, mainly distributed in the Eastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia and all the way to Indonesia. During the process of organizing plant specimens from field surveys in southeastern Tibet in recent years, the researchers of the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Research Forest and Shrub Ecosystem at the Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences found a plant collected in a humid forest along the Yarlung Zangbo River in Medog County, China Mangosteen growing on dead wood is "unusual".
[Same period] (species collector Hu Jun) At that time, I saw a species that fell on that dry branch. It was a bit tall, much taller than people. It might fall down about 4 meters, and then sag , Hanging from that dead branch, but with very red flowers on it, and we thought this was pretty good, we started to take pictures, then beat it down with that branch and collected two specimens back.
【Explanation】Researchers found that in the process of reviewing the data later, there was no record and description of this species in all the previously published materials of Chicoryae. The researchers expanded the search horizon to a global scale and found only two specimens internationally. It was learned that the collection time was more than 100 years ago, and only one of them has publicly available image data. Through the specimens stored in Qiuyuan's designated model, it was found that the newly collected specimens in the Eastern Himalayas could perfectly match in morphological characteristics.
[Same period] (species collector Hu Jun) It’s been 100 years since it didn’t have data, which means that botanists may have only one original record of it, that is, a record from 1912, but this was never found in the future. Species, all studies on this species based on only two specimens are blank, for example, if you evaluate it more or less. It is not even known, so it is said that this is a lack of information that we are talking about in the evaluation system, so now we have found it is not a species without data.
[Explanation] In order to more accurately identify and evaluate its future protection status, the researchers supplemented the description of the species based on the original image data and the newly collected specimens recorded during the inspection, and also discussed the original records and Latin Naming problem. Up to now, there are 4 specimens of Phalaenopsis angustifolia in the world. Two of the latest collections are kept in the Herbarium of Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Herbarium of Jiangsu Academy of Sciences.
Reporter He Xi reports from Chengdu
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]