About the Authors

Xiao-Guo Xiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Guo Xiang, Wei-Tao Jin

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

Wei-Tao Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Guo Xiang, Wei-Tao Jin

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

De-Zhu Li

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

André Schuiteman

Affiliation Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives Directorate, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom

Wei-Chang Huang

Affiliation Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Songjiang, Shanghai, China

Jian-Wu Li

Affiliation Herbarium, Xishuanbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun Township, Mengla County, Yunnan, China

Xiao-Hua Jin

orchid@ibcas.ac.cn (XHJ); lizy@ibcas.ac.cn (ZYL)

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

Zhen-Yu Li

orchid@ibcas.ac.cn (XHJ); lizy@ibcas.ac.cn (ZYL)

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: XHJ XGX ZYL. Performed the experiments: WTJ. Analyzed the data: XGX XHJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWL WCH XHJ. Wrote the paper: XHJ XGX. Revised the draft: DZL AS.