HANOI, Vietnam - Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the Worldwide Fund for Nature said Wednesday.

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The Green Corridor

• HANOI, Vietnam - Scientists have discovered 11
  new species of plants and animals in Vietnam,
  including a snake, two butterflies and five
  orchid varieties, the Worldwide Fund for Nature
  said Wednesday.
• The new species were found in a remote region
  known as the "Green Corridor" in Thua Thien Hue
  province in central Vietnam, it said.

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• Scientists have discovered 11 new species in a
  remote region known as the Green Corridor in Thua
  Thien Hue province in central Vietnam, it said.

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• Forest rangers are pictured during a survey in
  the Green Corridor of the Annamite Mountain Range
  in Vietnam where researchers discovered 11 new
  species.

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• Oberonia huensis is a beautiful flowering orchid
  and is one of 11 new species of plants and
  animals that scientists have discovered in
  Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and
  five orchid varieties.

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• Lecanorchis vietnamica is a less colorful but
  extremely rare orchid discovered in Vietnam. It
  is one of three leafless varieties found recently.

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• Gastrodia theana is one of three of the new
  orchid species are leafless, which is unusual for
  orchids.

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• Anoectochilus annamenis is an orchid species
  discovered in Vietnam along with a snake, two
  butterflies and four other orchid varieties.

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• This photo provided by the World Wildlife Fund
  shows a new snake species called white-lipped
  keelback, discovered in Vietnam. It generally
  lives close to streams and eats frogs and other
  small animals.

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• Saccolabiopsis viridiflora is another orchid
  found in the Green Corridor of Vietnam.

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• A pair of orchids named Phyllagathis
  Melastomataceae are pictured in Vietnam's central
  Thua Thien Hue province.

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• This species of orchid, named Aspidistra nicolai,
  produces a black flower and can subsist in low
  light.

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• A new species of skipper from the genus Zela
  discovered in Vietnam.

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• Another aspidistra plant discovered in Vietnam
  but not yet named. It has delicate flowers.

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• Cryptocoryne vietnamica is a new species of arum
  (family of Araceae) discovered in Vietnam. It has
  beautiful yellow flowers.