About the Authors

Bine Xue

xuebine@scib.ac.cn (BX); tyh@xtbg.org.cn (YHT)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Yun-Yun Shao

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

Richard M. K. Saunders

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China

Yun-Hong Tan

xuebine@scib.ac.cn (BX); tyh@xtbg.org.cn (YHT)

Affiliations Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, P.R. China, Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BX YHT RMKS. Formal analysis: BX. Funding acquisition: BX YHT. Investigation: BX YYS YHT. Resources: YHT BX YYS. Writing – original draft: BX YYS RMKS YHT. Writing – review & editing: BX YYS RMKS YHT.