Three Thismia malipoensis flowers found in the Laoshan Provincial Nature Reserve in Malipo county, Yunnan province, in 2019. CHINA DAILY After further study through collaboration with other researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden under the CAS, they realized that the plant was a new species of Thismia. On Feb 28, the researchers from KIB and XTBG described the new …
Ya Jidong takes photos of Thismia malipoensis in the nature reserve in 2019. CHINA DAILY On Aug 13, 2019, Ya Jidong, a botanist from the Kunming Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his colleagues walked into a patch of wet evergreen, broad-leaved forest in a karst valley in the Laoshan Provincial Nature Reserve in Malipo county, …
Once biologists suspect a documented species’ extinction, the challenge then shifts to proving whether it has disappeared forever or just disappeared from sight It isn’t easy to say that anything has truly “gone extinct.” For starters, an untold number of creatures — especially teensy, nocturnal or otherwise cryptic ones — have vanished before humans ever noticed them. “Every plant on …
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