National Natural Science Foundation of China (41661134049, U1502231, 31470325);the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS (XDA20070301);Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS (QYZDB-SSWSMC016), a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/P013805/1);and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS (2017439).
The uplift of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau dramatically changed the regional topography and climate, profoundly impacting the distribution of many plant lineages. Plant responses to environmental changes are particula...
Pronephrium stiriacum(Unger) Knobloch et Kvatek 1976(Filicales, Thelypteridaceae Holttum 1971) is reported from the Oligocene Petrosani Basin and from the Miocene Bozovici Basin in Romania. Morphological variation...
Acknowledgements We are grateful to the curators and staff of herbaria CDBI, CTS, GAUA, GXMI, HGAS, HITBC, HZU, IBK, IBSC, KUN, PE, PYU, SWCTU, and SZ. We would like to thank: Professor Wei-Ming CHU for his suggestion on taxonomic treatment and generous help on sourcing references and the fieldwork; Dr. C. R. Fraser-Jenkins for his help on providing type photos; Professor Pei-Shan WANG for providing his personal specimen collections for this study; Mr. Lie-Yuan KUO and Ms. Pi-Fong LU for providing photos of specimens and plants and published work from Taiwan, China; and Mr. RiHong JIANG for providing specimens from Guangxi, China. This study was financially supported by the International Cooperation Key Projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. GJI-/Z1140) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31070182).
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