A Precious Fern Species Discovered in Jiulong, Sichuan

Supported by the US NationalScience Foundation and theNational Natural ScienceFoundation of China, a rare anden dang er e d f er n, I s oe t e shypsophila, was discovered by aSino-US research team headed byProf. SUN Hang from the CASKunming Institute of Botany (KIB)and Dr. David E. Boufford fromHarvard University in a recent tripto Jiulong, Sichuan, during its bo-tanical survey in the HengduanMountains in south China. Scien-tists say the plant is found for thefirst time in the r…