About the Authors

Fei Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Zhao, Bo Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Bo Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Zhao, Bo Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Centre of Ecological Sciences, College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China

Bryan T. Drew

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska, United States of America

Ya-Ping Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Qiang Wang

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Wen-Bin Yu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China

En-De Liu

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Yasaman Salmaki

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms and Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Hua Peng

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

hpeng@mail.kib.ac.cn (HP); xiangchunlei@mail.kib.ac.cn (CLX)

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Chun-Lei Xiang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hpeng@mail.kib.ac.cn (HP); xiangchunlei@mail.kib.ac.cn (CLX)

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.