About the Authors

Mei-Na Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Mei-Na Wang, Lei Duan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The National Orchid Conservation Center of China and The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Lei Duan

Contributed equally to this work with: Mei-Na Wang, Lei Duan

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Qi Qiao

Roles Resources

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, College of Agriculture, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China

Zheng-Feng Wang

Roles Resources

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Elizabeth A. Zimmer

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 166, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Zhong-Chao Li

Roles Resources

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Hong-Feng Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

h.f.chen@scbg.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.