Do You Like This New Rare Orchid?

中国科学院武汉植物园胡光万研究团队在四川省甘孜藏族自治州雅江县发现植物新物种。记者27日从中国科学院武汉植物园了解到，有关这种被命名为“雅江舌喙兰”的兰科植物新物种的论文，近期已发表于国际学术期刊Kew Bulletin。

A new orchid species, named Hemipilia yajiangensis, was found in Yajiang County, southwest China's Sichuan Province. A recent report about this discovery was published in the Kew Bulletin – an international journal of plant taxonomy.

该物种由胡光万团队科研人员于2020年8月和2021年7月在川西开展兰科植物调查时发现。该植物的特点是叶正面呈深绿色并具白色的网纹，叶背面通常紫红色具几条绿色的叶脉。花白色，唇瓣上具紫色斑点。

The species was discovered in western Sichuan in August, 2020 and July, 2021during field research led by Hu Guangwan, a researcher at the Wuhan Botanical Garden under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The plant is distinguished by its deep green leaf with whitish web-like lines and white petals with purplish dots on its lip lobe.

据胡光万研究团队专家介绍，雅江舌喙兰生长在一个距四川格西沟国家级自然保护区较远的村落外，生境极容易遭到破坏。科研人员在雅江县其他区域，包括格西沟国家级自然保护区在内，开展了兰科植物资源调查，均未发现雅江舌喙兰的其他居群。考虑到这是目前发现的雅江舌喙兰的唯一居群，其生境亟需保护。

These plants grow near a village that is far from the Sichuan Gexigou National Nature Reserve, where their habitat is vulnerable to destruction, according to one of the discoverers. Researchers also carried out a survey of orchid resources in other areas of Yajiang County, including the reserve, but found no sign of another population. Considering that this is the only population of the species found so far, its habitat is in urgent need of preservation.

尖齿卫矛

四川生物资源十分丰富，是我国及世界重要的生物基因宝库，全省有高等植物1万余种，高等动物1300余种。

Sichuan is rich in biological resources and is an important biological gene pool in China and the world, with more than 10,000 species of higher plants and 1,300 species of higher animals in the province.

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卧龙盆距兰

近年来，随着生态保护、巡护监测、科学研究力度的加大，越来越多诸如旱谷蛇藤、卧龙盆距兰、褐红白珠树等珍稀植物在四川被发现。前段时间，四川特有的极度濒危植物尖齿卫矛在消失百年后再度出现。

In recent years, with the increase of ecological protection, patrol monitoring and scientific research, more and more rare plants such as Colubrina zhaoguangii,Gastrochilus wolongensis,Gaultheria marroninahave been found in Sichuan. Some time ago, the endemic and critically endangered plant of Sichuan,Euonymus aquifolium, reappeared after a hundred years of disappearance.