About the Authors

Xiaoguo Xiang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Dezhu Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Xiaohua Jin

xiaohuajin@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hao Hu

Affiliation Xi’an Botanical Garden, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Hailang Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Weitao Jin

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yangjun Lai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XGX XHJ. Performed the experiments: XGX HH. Analyzed the data: XGX XHJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XGX XHJ. Wrote the paper: XGX XHJ. Revised the draft: DZL XHJ HH HLZ WTJ YJL

Taxonomic treatment: XHJ.