supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31470333,32170228,32460057);Guangxi Natural Science Youth Found Program(2023GXNSFBA026113);the Research Fund of Qiannan Medical College for Nationalities(QNYZ202442).
Adaptive radiation is usually triggered by great in situ or ex situ environmental changes.How an adaptive radiation occurs on lands and how species richness relates to morphodisparity have been a major focus of evolut...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31860043);also in part by the scientific research capacity building project for the Nonggang Karst Ecosystem Observation and Research Station of Guangxi(GK23-026-273).
The Himalayas represent a complex mountain system housing some of the world's richest floras along with a high level of endemism.Among them,Lysionotus(Gesneriaceae)stands out as a small genus(~34 species)that is unexp...
support was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41871041).
Disjunct distribution is a key issue in biogeography and ecology,but it is often difficult to determine the relative roles of dispersal vs.vicariance in disjunctions.We studied the phylogeographic pattern of the monot...
grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Yunnan joint fund to support key projects(U1802232);the Major Program of NSFC(31590823);NSFC(32170215);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(2019382);the Young Academic and Technical Leader Raising Foundation of Yunnan Province(2019HB039);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2019QZKK0502);the CAS"Light of West China"Program。
A new species,Oreocharis xieyongii T.Deng,D.G.Zhang&H.Sun,from Hunan Province,central China,is described.The combination of purple zygomorphic corolla with longer adaxial lobes and exserted stamens defines the species...
This work was supported by grants from the Backbone Talents Project of Wuhan Botanical Garden,CAS(Y655301M01);from the Si no-Africa Joint Research Center,CAS(SAJC201614)。
Streptocarpus ionanthus(Gesneriaceae)is endemic to Tanzania and Kenya,distributed in Tanga,Morogoro,and Kilifi regions.The species houses nine subspecies characterized by complex morphotypes and poorly understood evol...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Guangdong Natural Science Foundation Joint Project (U1501211) and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(DB31010000).
The karst landform in southern China is renowned for its high levels of species diversity and endemism.Clobally,karst ecosystems are under threat from unsustainable anthropogenic disturbance and climate changes and ar...
STS Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KFJ-3W-No1-22);Guangxi Natural Science Foundation(2017GXNSFAA198006);National Natural Science Foundation(31860047);Foundation of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain(19-050-6);Guilin Science&Technology Foundation(20180107-6);the Basal Research Fund of GXIB(Guizhiye20009);21st Talent project of“Ten-Hundred-Thousand”in Guangxi and the Key Science&Technology Research and Development Project of Guangxi(Guike AB16380053).
A new species of Gesneriaceae,Primulina titan,is described and photographed from northern Guangxi,China.It resembles P.hunanensis,but can be distinguished by combined morphological characters of leaf,bract,corolla,sta...