Taxonomic Status, Phylogenetic Affinities and Genetic Diversity of a Presumed Extinct Genus, Paraisometrum W.T. Wang (Gesneriaceae) from the Karst Regions of Southwest China

• Wen-Hong Chen,

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

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• Yu-Min Shui ,

  * E-mail: ymshui@mail.kib.ac.cn (YMS); wanghong@mail.kib.ac.cn (HW); m.moeller@rbge.ac.uk (MM)

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

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• Jun-Bo Yang,

  Affiliation Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Hong Wang ,

  * E-mail: ymshui@mail.kib.ac.cn (YMS); wanghong@mail.kib.ac.cn (HW); m.moeller@rbge.ac.uk (MM)

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

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• Kanae Nishii,

  Affiliation Science Division, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Fang Wen,

  Affiliation Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, Guangxi, China

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• Zhi-Rong Zhang,

  Affiliation Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Michael Möller

  * E-mail: ymshui@mail.kib.ac.cn (YMS); wanghong@mail.kib.ac.cn (HW); m.moeller@rbge.ac.uk (MM)

  Affiliation Science Division, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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