The shape of leaf laminae exhibits considerable diversity and complexity that reflects adaptations to environmental factors such as ambient light and precipitation as well as phyletic legacy.Many leaves appear to be e...
This project was funded by the Public Welfare Forestry Industry Project of State Forestry Administration of China(No.201504322);Fairylake Botanical Garden Key Science Foundation(No.FLSF2020-01).
Magnoliaceae,an assemblage of early diverged angiosperms,comprises two subfamilies,speciose Magnolioideae with approximately 300 species in varying numbers of genera and monogeneric Liriodendroideae with two species i...
Magnolia sinica is one of the most endangered Magnoliaceae species in China.Seed biology information concerning its long-term ex situ conservation and utilization is insufficient.This study investigated dormancy statu...
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31672344);the Research Foundation for Advanced Talents of Jiangxi Normal Universities(2018).
The genus Cladiucha Konow,1902 is reviewed.The generic characters are redescribed based on new material.A new species of this genus is described from Yunnan,China:C.punctata Wei sp.nov.,and a key to species is also pr...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC Grant No.31570651);the China Scholarship Council(No.201808420204)。
With more than 300 species,the Magnoliaceae family represents a major Magnolid lineage that is disjunctly distibuted in Asia and the New World,.The classifcation of Magnolia s.L.has been highly controversial among tax...
supported by the University Grants Commission(UGC)(Grant no.:F1-17.1/2013-14/RGNF-2013-14-STNAG-43868/(SA-III/website)and(Grant no.F.15-6(Dec.,2011)/2012(NET))。
The population structure and regeneration status of Magnolia punduana Hk. f. & Th., an endemic tree species of northeast India were investigated in fragmented forests in the Jarain Hills and in adjoining areas of Megh...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41820104002,41772009,and 41661134049);the Russian Foundation for Basic research(Grant No.16-04-00725);the National Research Foundation of South Africa(Incentive Grant No.109531);State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,CAS)(No.173101);Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources(No.PlantKF04),and the Scientific Research Fund;Hongda Zhang,Sun Yat-sen University.We thank the University of Johannesburg and the Komarov Botanical Institute(institutional research Project No.AAAA-A18-118030690081-1)for financial support for A.A.O.We thank graduate students majoring in plant science at Sun Yat-sen University for participating in the field collection of the fossils.
In this paper,we describe a new species Magnolia nanningensis sp.nov.,based on exceptionally well‐preserved mummified fossil woods from the late Oligocene of the Nanning Basin,Guangxi,South China.The features of thes...