China's biodiversity hotspots revisited: A treasure chest for plants

Jie Cai¹, Wen-Bin Yu^{2

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4}, Ting Zhang¹, Hong Wang⁵, De-Zhu Li¹

Affiliations

¹ Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China.
² Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China.
³ Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar.
⁴ Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China.
⁵ Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China.

Editorial

Jie Cai et al. PhytoKeys. 2019.

. 2019 Aug 29:130:1-24.

doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.130.38417. eCollection 2019.

Jie Cai¹, Wen-Bin Yu^{2

3

4}, Ting Zhang¹, Hong Wang⁵, De-Zhu Li¹

¹ Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China.
² Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China.
³ Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar.
⁴ Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China.
⁵ Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China.

Abstract

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