Chinese Academy of Forth sciences team discovers new plant species "Spike Water Jade Cup"

BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua Ma Aiping) 15, from China's Forest
Institute of Tropical Forestry was informed that the institute's experts in Hainan Rainforest National Park recently discovered a new plant species: spike water jade cup. Experts point out that the current number of plants found in the Spike Water Jade Cup is very small, according to the World Natural Resources Conservation Union's classification criteria for the endangered species, it is recommended that the species be included in the increasingly endangered or even endangered level for protection. Recently, the results were published in the internationally renowned journal Plant Taxonomy.
Li Yide, a researcher at the
China Forest
Thermal Forest Institute and former director of the National Field Science Observatory of the Spike Ridge Forest Ecosystem in Hainan Province, said that the shape of the Spike Water Jade Cup is like a red lantern, which belongs to a new species in the taxonomy genus of the meaty rotting grass. There are about 40 kinds of plants in the world, mainly in the pan-tropical region. Previously, found and recorded in China are
water jade cup, trisil water jade cup, Gongshan water jade cup,
water jade cup and gold water jade cup 5 species, peak water jade cup is the latest discovery of the 6th species, but also only seen in Hainan's endearing plant species.
Xu Han, the first author of the paper, said the Spike Water Yu Cup is a new species found by eco-station researchers in the long-term monitoring of 60 hectares of large-like and grid
-like land. Since 2011, the team has found a total of 6 new plant species in the Hainan rainforest, peak mold grass, spike horse bell, Ledong horse bell, Hainan line zhulan, Hainan Yi, snow shadow grass, the discovery of the spike water jade cup is the team found the 7th new plant species.