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    The endangered plant Huabai reappeared in time after a hundred years

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    The endangered plant Huabai reappeared in time after a hundred years
    The endangered plant Huabai reappeared after a hundred years

    (Biodiversity Conference) The endangered plant Huabai reappeared in time after a hundred years

    China News Service, Kunming, September 29th (Kong Jijun) The reporter learned from the Yunnan Academy of Forestry and Grassland Sciences on the 29th : Recently, the orchid conservation team of the institute carried out the survey of orchid resources in Yunnan Province and the collection of the national important wild plant genebank project.
    , The wild population of Bletilla sinensis was discovered in Zhenkang County, Yunnan Province.
    This is the first time that Bletilla sinensis appeared before the world again after 122 years
    .

    Academy of Sciences

    Huabaiji is a precious orchidaceous herb.
    It has been listed as an endangered species in the IUCN Red List of Species, and was assessed as endangered in the "China Biodiversity Red List-Higher Plant Volume" published in 2013.
    Rank
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    The type specimen of Hua Baiji was collected from Mengzi, Yunnan in 1898, deposited in the Herbarium of Kew Gardens, England, and officially published in Linnaeus Botany in 1903
    .


    After more than a hundred years, this plant has disappeared from people's vision, and scientists only know about it in three specimens in the collection


    The reporter learned that the population of Huabai and populations discovered by the researchers in Zhenkang County this time did not exceed 300, and only 2 seeds were collected
    .


    As Huabai and natural seed setting rate is very low, this batch of seeds has been preserved in the national germplasm bank of important wild plants


    Academy of Sciences
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