China News Service, Chongqing, September 17 (Liang Qinqing) The reporter learned from the Chongqing Wulipo National Nature Reserve on the 17th that the reserve recently jointly published and named a new plant species with the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chongqing Museum of Natural History. Species - Three Gorges White Front.
At present, related papers have been published in the international plant taxonomy journal "Plant Taxa".
The picture shows a new plant species discovered in the Three Gorges area - Sanxia Baiqian.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Sanxia Baiqian is a perennial herb of the genus Baiqian of the oleander family, and there are about 90 species of the genus Baiqian in China.
Since 2019, researchers such as Zhou Houlin of Chongqing Wulipo National Nature Reserve, Chen Feng of Chongqing Natural Museum and other researchers have successively discovered this phenomenon in Chongqing Wulipo National Nature Reserve, Chongqing Yintiaoling National Nature Reserve, and Chongqing Fengjie County. species.
Zhou Houlin introduced that under the auspices of Zhang Caifei, an assistant researcher at the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, after nearly three years of research, it was finally confirmed as a new species. At least 5 distribution points are known in the Three Gorges White Front.
The picture shows a new plant species discovered in the Three Gorges area - Sanxia Baiqian.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Chai Huiming, director of the Management Affairs Center of Chongqing Wulipo National Nature Reserve, said that since 2022, three other new species have been discovered in Wulipo National Nature Reserve, named Wulipo Paimou spider and Dwarf spider. False rough su and five-sided giant disease kitchen katydid fully reflect the biodiversity of Wulipo.
The picture shows a new plant species discovered in the Three Gorges area - Sanxia Baiqian.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Chongqing Wulipo National Nature Reserve is located in Wushan County, northeast of Chongqing, at the junction of Chongqing and Hubei, bordering Shennongjia National Park, just at the junction of the Daba Mountain Arc and the Eastern Sichuan Fold Belt, mostly low mountains and Zhongshan terrain.
There are currently 3,001 species of vascular plants recorded, including 79 species of wild plants under national key protection, reflecting the important position of Southwest China as a treasure trove of plants in China.
(Finish)