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Updated : 03/08/2014 13:20 GMT + 7
The “trà” flower found in the Cat Tien National Park in
southern Vietnam in 2011 has recently been recognized as a new species
which has been discovered for the first time in the world by the Swedish
scientific magazine Nordic Journal of Botany.
The floral species, which has been named “Camellia longii” by the
magazine, was found when a group of researchers led by Dr. Vu Ngoc Long,
head of the Southern Institute of Ecology, made a trip to examine the
national park’s forests which were affected by hydropower projects in
Dong Nai.
Noticing the species different from floral species he had ever known,
Dr. Long assumed that the species needed to be recognized as a new
species and announced as well as included in the list of strictly
protected species. Since then, Dr. Luu Hong Truong, vice head of the
institute, had collected images and documents to make dossier for the
recognition.
According to Nordic Journal of Botany, the new species are locally
endemic and considered threatened by local hydropower projects that may
inundate the species’ locality.
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