Acknowledgements The authors thank the curators of the following herbaria: for lending us or providing materials used for this study: EGR, FH, G, GOET, HSNU, JE, NY, and USF. The authors also thank S. R. GRADSTEIN (Departemt Systomatique et Evolution, Musoum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France) for critical advice and language improvement of the manuscript, Q HE (East China Normal University, Shanghai, China) for preparing the light and scanning electron microscopy illustrations, and B-C HO (Singapore) for valuable suggestions regarding the phylogenetic analysis. W YE also gratefully acknowledges C-X FU (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China) for his support and advice. This research was supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30825004, 31170190), 211 Project for the East China Normal University, and the Large Instruments Open Foundation of East China Normal University.
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