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It was thought that Japan was location to lone 1 taxon of Spiranthes orchid, but researchers person present recovered another
17 March 2023
Spiranthes hachijoensis was hiding successful plain sight Masayuki Ishibashi
A caller orchid taxon – a delicate relative of a known orchid – has been identified successful Japan.
Japan’s flora has been exhaustively studied, and truthful botanists were nether the content that the mainland is location to conscionable 1 taxon from the Spiranthes genus of orchids: Spiranthes australis. But successful May 2015, Kenji Suetsugu astatine Kobe University successful Japan stumbled upon an antithetic benignant of orchid portion connected a tract travel exploring the grasslands of the Chiba prefecture.
Suetsugu spotted a clump of rosy petals …
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