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Geodorum eulophioides
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Update time: 2016-07-28
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Geodorum eulophioides Schlechter is a rare, showy, ground orchid with a very narrow global distribution. It  is an endangered and narrowly endemic orchid species, occurring in a short stretch of the valley along the Hongshui River near Yachang National Orchid Nature Reserve  of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwestern China (Liu, 2010), and in central Myanmar.

 No additional specimens of this rare orchid were found in China since its first description in 1921, until 2005, when a population of G. eulophioides with several dozen reproductive plants was discovered on a small hill in Bajiang village, on the border with Luodian, adjacent to the Yachang Reserve. Geodorum eulophioides Schltr.  

It is  critically endangered species (IUCN) and is one of the major conservation concern as it has only four known populations, two each found in China and others in Burma.

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